
José BorbinhaUniversity of Lisbon | UL · Department of Informatics
José Borbinha
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The concept of Data Management Plan (DMP) has emerged as a fundamental tool to help researchers through the systematical management of data. The Research Data Alliance DMP Common Standard (DCS) working group developed a set of universal concepts characterising a DMP so it can be represented as a machine-actionable artefact, i.e., machine-actionable...
Cat-SD (Categorization by Similarity-Dissimilarity) is a method developed for handling nominal classification problems in the context of Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA). This paper describes the design and implementation of this method and an application dealing with a recruitment and selection process in the Special Forces of the Portugue...
The concept of Data Management Plan (DMP) has emerged as a fundamental tool to help researchers through the systematical management of data. The Research Data Alliance DMP Common Standard (DCS) working group developed a core set of universal concepts characterising a DMP in the pursuit of producing a DMP as a machine-actionable information artefact...
Cyber incidents can halt critical economic functions or cause an extreme loss of confidence in the financial system. The prospect of reputational contagion events should be particularly considered by financial authorities since confidence in institutions is a crucial factor for the stability of financial systems. This work explores the hypothesis t...
The paper proposes the use of a multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) nominal classification method to tackle a dramatic current social problem: the accommodation system for refugees. In recent years, the number of people in need of protection and assistance as a consequence of forced displacement has drastically increased. As many other Europea...
Formal concept analysis has been largely applied to exploretaxonomic relationships and derive ontologies from text collections. De-spite its recognized relevance, it generally misses relevant concept asso-ciations and suffers from the need to learn from Boolean space models.Biclustering, the discovery of coherent concept associations (subsets ofdoc...
Funding bodies and other policy-makers are increasingly more concerned with Research Data Management (RDM). The Data Management Plan (DMP) is one of the tools available to perform RDM tasks, however it is not a perfect concept. The Machine-Actionable Data Management Plan (maDMP) is a concept that aims to make the DMP interoperable, automated and in...
Cat-SD (Categorization by Similarity-Dissimilarity) is a multiple criteria decision aiding method for dealing with nominal classification problems (predefined and non-ordered categories). Actions are assessed according to multiple criteria and assigned to one or more categories. A set of reference actions is used to define each category. The assign...
The Portuguese public administration is a highly regulated environment, where business processes are subject to strong requirements for records management. Therefore business metadata must be produced and maintained along with the regular business objects, to enable effective information exchange. In that sense, when entities of this domain engage...
Records management systems support organization in reaching business benefits when properly aligned with business processes. This paper frames records management in business process management by identifying the role records management plays in business. This research proposes Business Layer a solution that replaces a records management system work...
A Maturity Model represents a path towards an increasingly organized and systematic way of doing business. It is therefore a widely used technique valuable to assess certain aspects of organizations, as for example business processes. A maturity assessment can enable stakeholders to clearly identify strengths and improvement points, and prioritize...
Formal concept analysis has been largely applied to explore taxonomic relationships and derive ontologies from text collections. Despite its recognized relevance, it generally misses relevant concept associations and suffers from the need to learn from Boolean space models. Biclustering, the discovery of coherent concept associations (subsets of do...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2019, held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 2019.
EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises are facing in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with these challenges req...
This paper addresses the challenge of content categorization to support document navigation and retrieval. The work is motivated by the need to categorize all legislation of a country, where the existing metadata for each document is not sufficient for effective categorization, as concepts vary considerably among documents, resulting in highly spar...
A Maturity Model represents a path towards an increasingly organized and systematic way of doing business. It is therefore a widely used technique valuable to assess certain aspects of organizations, as for example business processes. A maturity assessment can enable stakeholders to clearly identify strengths and improvement points, and prioritize...
Risk management is a development activity and increasingly plays a crucial role in organization’s management. Organizations develop and implement enterprise risk management strategies intending to improve their business model and bring them better results. Enterprise risk management strategies are based on the implementation of a risk management pr...
Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) is a domain focused on the development of methods to help decision makers. DecSpace is an online Decision Support System (DSS) intended to be a workbench for the use of MCDA methods. DecSpace supports projects as persistent spaces where users can explore different solutions for the same problem, and share th...
This work proposes a new motivation for a literature review on the concepts of roles in project, program and portfolio governance within organizational overall governance. Recent literature has been promoting a paradigm change in the way how the research and practitioner communities should approach project management. Under such change, it mattered...
This article presents the knowledge center service, an aggre-gator of services developed under the scope of the E-ARK Project. This aims to provide a comprehensive set of services that will allow users to understand, contribute to, and validate information governance good practices. The knowledge center comprises two main services. The resources ce...
CAT-SD (CATegorization by Similarity-Dissimilarity) is a recently developed method for handling nominal classification problems in the context of Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA). This paper describes the design and implementation of this method, as well as an application dealing with a recruitment process in the Special Forces of the Portu...
In this chapter, we consider a decision problem related to cultural adaptive reuse of abandoned buildings in Turin, an Italian big city. We propose to handle this decision problem by considering several criteria and by using a recently proposed nominal classification method called Cat-SD (Categorization by Similarity–Dissimilarity). The case study...
Categorization by Similarity-Dissimilarity is a multiple criteria decision aiding method for dealing with nominal classification problems (predefined and non-ordered categories). Actions are assessed according to multiple criteria and assigned to one or more categories. A set of reference actions is used for defining each category. The assignment o...
A Maturity Model is a widely used technique that is proved to be valuable to assess business processes or certain aspects of organizations, as it represents a path towards an increasingly organized and systematic way of doing business. A maturity assessment can be used to measure the current maturity level of a certain aspect of an organization in...
A Maturity Model represents a path towards an increasingly organized and systematic way of doing business. It is therefore a widely-used technique valuable to assess certain aspects of organizations, as for example business processes. A maturity assessment can enable stakeholders to clearly identify strengths and improvement points, and prioritize...
An Information Security Management System, according with the ISO/IEC 27001 is the set of “that part of the overall management system, based on a business risk approach, to establish, implement, operate, monitor, review, maintain and improve information security”. ISO/IEC 27001 defines the requirements and process for implementing an Information Se...
In this paper, we propose a new multiple criteria decision aiding method for nominal classification problems, where the categories are predefined and no order exists among them. A multiple criteria nominal classification problem consists of assigning actions, assessed according to multiple criteria, to nominal categories. The new method, designated...
A Maturity Model represents a path towards an increasingly organized and systematic way of doing business. It is therefore a widely used technique valuable to assess certain aspects of organizations, as for example business processes. A maturity assessment can enable stakeholders to clearly identify strengths and improvement points, and prioritize...
This paper presents formalizations that capture definitions of a number of concepts of the ISO/IEC 15504-5 process assessment model and the CMMI v1.3 constellations process models and relations among the concepts. The formalizations are expressed in a formal language, OWL. The main objectives for these formalizations are to be consistent with the I...
This paper presents a formalization that captures definitions of a number of concepts of ISO/IEC 15504 and relations among the concepts. The formalization is expressed in a formal language, OWL. The two main objectives for this formalization was to be consistent with the ISO/IEC 15504-5 process assessment model and to be effective, i.e., to allow f...
Information Governance (IG) as defined by Gartner is the “specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information. Includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in...
Risk Management, according with the ISO Guide 73 is the set of “coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to risk”. In a nutshell, Risk Management is the business process used to manage risk in organizations. ISO 31000 defines a framework and process for risk management. However, implementing this standard without a d...
Ensuring the alignment between IT and business can be a difficult challenge. That is the reason why the Enterprise Architecture domain exists, to provide guidance on how to better align Business and IT. There are several methods in existence that guide an organization in developing its Enterprise Architecture. However, putting these methods in prac...
The different needs and domains of enterprises and how they employ EA modelling languages and tools can give rise to heterogeneity at the syntactical, structural and semantical levels. In particular, models dealing with the process perspective are becoming increasingly complex and hetereogeneous. This raises difficulties in managing and reusing EA...
Enterprise models assist the governance and transformation of organizations through the specification, communication and analysis of strategy, goals, processes, information, along with the underlying application and technological infrastructure. Such models cross-cut different concerns and are often conceptualized using domain-specific modelling la...
Digital Preservation has emerged as a key challenge for information systems in many domains and is often seen as a case of interoperability through time. However, the complexity and change rate of common environments and information representations today have the effect that this interoperability is rarely achieved. In order to successfully address...
A Maturity Model is a widely used technique that is proved to be valuable to assess business processes or certain aspects of organizations, as it represents a path towards an increasingly organized and systematic way of doing business. A maturity assessment can be used to measure the current maturity level of a certain aspect of an organization in...
Information Governance as defined by Gartner is the "specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information. Includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabl...
Information Governance (IG) as defined by Gartner is the “specification of deci-sion rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information. Includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in...
Enterprise architecture aligns business and information technology through the management of different elements and domains. Performing an integrated analysis of EA models using automated techniques is necessary when EA model representations grow in complexity, in order to support, for example, benchmarking of business processes or assessing compli...
Information Governance (IG) as defined by Gartner is the “specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information. Includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in...
This paper aims to use the previous work related to the DELPHI method, and, in particular, the Q-Sort method for information retrieval of a panel of experts, to provide a new and simple algorithm to generate Q-Sort matrices that adjust to the size of a given survey to have more questions whose weight is null for the outcome of the round, giving exp...
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Enterprise architecture (EA) model analysis can be defined as the application of property assessment criteria to EA models. Ontologies can be used to represent conceptual models, providing means for their integration, at the semantic and syntactic level, and allowing the application of computational inference to derive logical conclusions f...
Process model matching refers to the automatic identification of correspondences between the activities of process models. Application scenarios of process model matching reach from model validation over harmonization of process variants to effective management of process model collections. Recognizing this, several process model matching technique...
Enterprise models contribute to the understanding, communication and analysis of how business processes are performed, the goals they achieve, the information they use, as well as the applications that support the business, and the underlying technological infrastructure. The analysis of these different domains requires combining different enterpri...
This poster presents a pragmatic risk assessment method based on best practice from the ISO 31000 family of standards regarding risk management. The method proposed is supported by established risk management concepts that can be applied to help a data repository to gain awareness of the risks and costs of the controls for the identified risks. In...
This paper describes a business process analysis method that helps determining if a business process complies with the requirements put forward by enterprise ontology’s transaction pattern. The method starts by discovering the business process through the application of process mining techniques to the events that are generated by the applications...
Enterprise architecture models support decision-making as they help organizations to understand, communicate and analyse how business processes are performed, the goals they achieve, the information they use, as well as the applications that realize the business, and the supporting technological infrastructure. The integrated analysis of these mode...
IT-supported business processes and computationally intensive science (called e-science) have become increasingly ubiquitous in the last decades. Along with this trend comes the need to make at least the most important of these processes available for the long term, to allow later analysis of their execution, or even a re-execution. As such, the pr...
Data management has been emerging as a specific concern, which when applied through the full lifecycle of the data also has been named of data curation. However, when it comes to the estimation of costs for digital curation the references are rare. To address that problem we propose a method a pragmatic method based on the body of knowledge of risk...
This paper presents a pragmatic risk assessment method based on best practice from the ISO 31000 family of standards regarding risk management. The method proposed is supported by established risk management concepts that can be applied to help a data repository to gain awareness of the risks and costs of the controls for the identified risks. In s...
The concept of e-Science applies to science that, increasingly, is exe-cuted through distributed global collaborations where extensive data collections are processed by large scale computing resources through scientific workflows. These data can be heterogeneous, with multiple provenances, created and trans-formed according to different data schema...
Engineering and Science projects are facing new data management challenges, which are currently being addressed through the development of data management plans. However, project stakeholders are unable to proper assess if their plan is representative of good data management practices. To address this issue, we propose a risk management framework t...
Enterprise architecture supports the analysis and design of business-oriented systems through the creation of complementary perspectives from multiple viewpoints over the business, information systems and technological infrastructure, enabling communication between stakeholders. However, enterprise architecture modelling languages lack representati...
An enterprise architecture provides views on heterogeneous domains, such as business processes, people, business rules, application components, and technological infrastructure. These views are defined according to specific concerns and need to be expressed with an adequate description language. This entails integrating the description languages as...
Enterprise architecture facilitates the alignment between different domains, such as business, applications and information technology. These domains must be described with description languages that best address the concerns of its stakeholders. However, current model-based enterprise architecture techniques are unable to integrate multiple descri...
Digital preservation has the goal of ensuring long-term access to data, enabling future users not only to benefit from today's knowledge, but also to reuse such knowledge. Therefore, the digital preservation of a business process has the aim of enabling the use of the preserved process data so that its re-execution is possible. Law is becoming an e...
The world in which medicine and healthcare institutions are managed is rapidly changing in complex and unpredictable ways. In periods of rapid change, highly adaptive organizations have competitive advantage. Therefore, training a modern, adaptive and high performing team is one of the keys to success. There is a growing body of evidence that Game-...
Enterprise architecture aligns business and information technology through the management of different elements and domains. An architecture description encompasses a wide and heterogeneous spectrum of areas, such as business processes, metrics, application components, people and technological infrastructure. Views express the elements and relation...
Enterprise architecture supports the analysis, design and engineering of business-oriented systems through multiple views. Each view expresses the elements and relationships of a system from the perspective of specific system concerns relevant to one or more of its stakeholders. As a result, each view needs to expressed in the architecture descript...
The concept of e-Science applies to science that, increasingly, is executed through distributed global collaborations where extensive data collections are processed by large scale computing resources through scientific workflows. These data can be heterogeneous, with multiple provenances, created and transformed according to different data schemas,...
A goal of enterprise architecture is to align the business with the underlying support systems. An enterprise architecture description encompasses an heterogeneous spectrum of domains, such as business processes, application components, metrics, people and technological infrastructure. Architectural views express the domain elements and their relat...
The concept of capability can be used to provide a holistic view of a product or system, while offering new ways of dealing with complexity. Despite being a concept successfully adopted in several areas, there is opportunity for innovative usages in the engineering of systems. Traditionally, system development methods begin with the gathering and a...
Maturity Models have been proven to be powerful tools to assess to current state of an organization regarding a certain aspect and drive improvement. However, maturity models are often developed ad hoc, without following a well-documented design and development method, and often do not provide a pathway to further extend and update the model to fos...
The concept of capability has been deemed relevant over the years, which can be attested by its adoption in varied domains. It is an abstract concept, but simple to understand by business stakeholders and yet capable of making the bridge to technical aspects. Capabilities seem to bear similarities with services, namely their low coupling and high c...
This article is the first bibliometric analysis of the 708 lectures published by The Librarians and Archivists National Congress between 1985 and 2012, having been developed markers for production, productivity, institution origin and thematic analysis, in a quantitative, relational and diachronic perspective. Its results show a dynamic congress, e...
Digital longevity has emerged as a key challenge for information systems in many domains. In this article we explore the hypothesis that longevity is a non-functional quality attribute of information and software artifacts, driven by organizational capabilities and socio-technical change processes. While software evolution and maintenance have prod...
This paper presents a method to analyse the consistency and completeness of process models according to the principles of the ψ-theory and the underlying concept of business transaction. Transactions specify the collaborative behaviour between actors while services are being requested and provided. The method assesses the consistency of a process i...
Purpose – This paper aims to provide an analysis of the MoRe2010 specification while identifying the best practices and techniques of requirements engineering’s (RE) body of knowledge that could be applied to improve the quality of this specification. Design/methodology/approach – Considering the scope of MoReq, the authors describe the most releva...
Information resources in digital libraries are usually described, along with their context, by structured data records, commonly referred as metadata. Those records often contain unstructured information in natural language text, since they typically follow a data model which defines generic semantics for its data elements, or includes data element...
This paper describes an approach for the task of named entity recognition in structured data containing free text as the values of its elements. We studied the recognition of the entity types of person, location and organization in bibliographic data sets from a concrete wide digital library initiative. Our approach is based on conditional random f...
O objetivo das atividades de gestão de risco consiste em definir um conjunto de mecanismos para controlar os riscos associados a atividades e recursos valiosos. Verifica-se que grande parte das atividades de gestão de risco opera em silos, conduzindo a uma visão fragmentada de riscos, na qual cada atividade usa a sua linguagem, princípios e métrica...
The goal of Risk Management is to define prevention and control mechanisms to address the risks attached to specific activities and valuable assets. Many Risk Management efforts operate in silos with narrowly focused, functionally driven, and disjointed activities. That fact leads to a fragmented view of risks, where each activity uses its own lang...
This paper describes an experiment exploring the hypothesis that innovative application of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) principles can complement traditional bibliographic resource discovery systems inorder to improve the user experience. A specialized service was implemented that, when given a plain list of results...