Business Information Systems (eBook)

Title Page 2
Preface 5
Organization 6
Table of Contents 10
Ontologies in Organizations 10
Organisational Ontology Framework for Semantic Business Process Management 13
Introduction 13
Related Work 14
Ontology Framework 15
Organisational Structure Ontology and Organizational Units Ontology 16
Business Roles Ontology 17
Business Functions Ontology 17
Business Goals Ontology 18
Business Resource Ontology 19
Use Case Study 20
Discussion and Conclusions 21
References 23
A Process Oriented Assessment of the IT Infrastructure Value: A Proposal of an Ontology Based Approach 25
Introduction 25
Research Methodology 26
Related Work 27
Common Contact Points and Open Issues: Enterprise Models 29
The Proposed Ontology 30
Test Case 32
Conclusion 34
References 35
A Semantic Clinical Knowledge Representation Framework for Effective Health Care Risk Management 37
Introduction 37
Process Modelling 38
A Clinical Process for Caring Breast Neoplasm 39
Ontology-Based Clinical Knowledge Representation Framework 40
Medical Ontology and Clinical Process Schemas 41
Ontology and Process Instances 44
Reasoning over Schemas and Instances 45
Implementation Issues 46
Conclusion and Future Work 46
References 47
Ontologies and Security 10
Ontology-Based Tools for Automating Integration and Validation of Firewall Rules 49
Introduction 49
Background 50
The Firewall Management Problem 50
Related Work 52
A Generic Framework for Firewall Management 53
Representing the Firewall Knowledge 53
Tools for Advanced Reasoning 56
Automatic Maintenance of the Domain Model 57
Conclusion 58
References 59
Ontological Mapping of Information Security Best-Practice Guidelines 61
Introduction 61
Ontological Mapping of Information Security Best-Practice Guidelines 62
Ontology Analysis – Security Ontology 62
Mapping EBIOS to the Security Ontology 63
Knowledge Base Analysis 63
Mapping Concepts and Relations 64
Mapping the Knowledge 64
Mapping the IT Grundschutz Manual to the Security Ontology 66
Knowledge Base Analysis 66
Mapping Concepts and Relations 66
Mapping the Knowledge 67
Difficulties in the Mapping Process 68
Evaluation 69
Informal Competency Question 70
Formal Competency Question 70
Result Set 70
Conclusion 71
References 71
Supporting the Comparison of Business-Level Security Requirements within Cross-Enterprise Service Development 73
Introduction 73
A Development Process for Cross-Enterprise Security 74
Analyzing Security Requirements 76
Security Requirement Definition 76
Risk-Related Methodologies 76
Factors Influencing Requirement Determination 77
Ontology Design 79
Ontology Use 79
Existing Security and Risk Ontologies 80
Risk-Based Ontology and Discussion 81
Conclusions and Future Work 83
References 83
Web Search 10
Federated Product Search with Information Enrichment Using Heterogeneous Sources 85
Introduction 85
Related Work 86
Architecture 88
Integration of Vendor Information 89
Integration of Producer Information 90
Integration of 3$^{rd}$-Party Information 92
Incremental Page Reproduction 93
Evaluation 93
Conclusions 95
References 96
Parallel Algorithm for Query Content Based Webpages Ranking 97
Introduction 97
PageRank Algorithm 98
Sparse Linear System 99
Intelligent Surfer 99
Scalability 100
CZDIS Proposal 100
Decrease the U/N Ratio 100
Linear System Computation 101
Parallel Computation 102
Implementation 102
Results 103
Parallel Performance 103
Ranking 106
Conclusions and Future Work 107
References 108
STAR:chart – Preserving Data Semantics in Web-Based Applications 109
Introduction 109
Problem Statement and Motivation 110
Our Proposal and Contribution for a Semantic User Interface 111
Overview of Our Approach 112
The STAR:dust and STAR:ship Ontologies 112
The STAR:chart Framework 115
Case Studies 116
Service-Finder 116
NeP4B 117
Related Works 118
Conclusions and Future Work 119
References 120
Social Issues 11
Advanced Social Features in a Recommendation System for Process Modeling 121
Introduction 121
Metadata Model 123
Personalized Social Networks 124
Propagation of Changes in Public and Personalized Social Networks 125
Pull Service 126
Push Service 130
Related Work 130
Conclusion and Reflection 131
References 131
Computer Support for Agile Human-to-Human Interactions with Social Protocols 133
Introduction 133
Requirements for Support for Agile H2H Interactions 134
A Model of the Social Environment 134
Structured H2H Interactions 135
Layered Interaction Models 135
Adaptability 137
Social Protocols 137
Abstract Social Protocols 137
Implemented Social Protocols 139
Social Processes 139
Meta-processes 140
Discussion 142
Conclusion 142
References 143
Process Modelling 11
A Requirements Engineering Approach for Data Modelling of Process-Aware Information Systems 145
Introduction 145
Background and Related Work 147
The Business Process-Based Approach 147
The Info Cases Approach 147
Related Work 148
Description of the New Approach 148
Elicitation and Specification of Functional Requirements 149
Data Modelling 151
Conclusions and Future Work 155
References 156
Defining Adaptation Constraints for Business Process Variants 157
Background and Motivation 157
Motivating Example 158
Fundamentals 159
Selection Constraints 161
Conceptualisation 161
Formalisation 162
Expressiveness of Selection Constraints 163
Validation of Selection Constraints 165
Prototypical Implementation 166
Related Work 167
Conclusion and Outlook 168
References 168
Process Analysis and Mining 11
MMC-BPM: A Domain-Specific Language for Business Processes Analysis 169
Introduction 169
Business Process Analysis Scenario 170
Case Study: A Loan Approval Process 171
Business Process Analysis Requirements 171
The MMC-BPM Language 172
Data Block 172
Event Block 174
Rule Block 175
Integrating MMC Concerns with the Business Process 177
Padus: An Aspect-Oriented Workflow Language 177
Encapsulating Executable MMC Rules 177
Related Work 178
Conclusions and Future Work 179
References 180
Strategy-Driven Business Process Analysis 181
Introduction 181
COBRA 182
Operational Analysis Ontology 184
Metrics Ontology 185
Business Motivation Ontology 187
Strategy-Driven Analysis 189
Related Work 190
Conclusions 191
References 191
Case Construction for Mining Supply Chain Processes 193
Introduction 193
Challenges of Mining RFID-Based Supply Chain Processes 194
RFID Technology in the Supply Chain 194
Challenges of Mining Supply Chain Processes 195
Case Construction Based on EPCglobal 197
Logistic Event Types of EPCglobal 197
Case Construction Based on EPCglobal Event Types 200
Related Work 202
Conclusion 202
References 203
Service-Oriented Architecture 11
SOEDA: A Method for Specification and Implementation of Applications on a Service-Oriented Event-Driven Architecture 205
Introduction 205
Motivating Scenario 207
Related Work 207
High-Level Architecture 208
SOEDA Method 210
Conclusion and Future Work 215
References 215
Enhancing Semantic Service Discovery in Heterogeneous Environments 217
Introduction 217
Semantic Web Services (SWS) and Discovery 218
Semantic Service Descriptions 218
Semantic Service Discovery 219
Ontology Alignment and Mapping 220
Framework and Architecture 221
Service and Ontology Repository 221
Reasoner 222
Ontology Alignment Component 222
BPMN-Editor Integration 222
Discovery Component 223
Evaluation 223
Current State-of-the-Art 225
Conclusions 225
References 226
Towards an Implementation of the EU Services Directive with Semantic Web Services 229
Introduction 229
Motivating Scenario 229
The EU Services Directive and Related Work 230
Solution Approach 231
Implementing the EU Services Directive 232
Dynamic Questionnaire: Collecting Target and Situation 233
Licensing Process Composition 234
Presentation of the Composed Process to the User 235
Consolidation of Input Data and Collection of Missing Data 236
Process Execution and Monitoring 237
Exception Handling 237
Conclusions and Outlook 237
References 238
ERP 12
Integrating Process and Data Models to Aid Configuration of ERP Packages 240
Introduction 240
Information Needed for Configuration 241
Analysis of C-EPC 243
Analysis of Data Modeling Techniques 243
Proposed Data Modeling Technique 246
DAMC – An Explanation 247
An Illustration 247
Validation of DAMC 248
Conclusion 250
References 251
Designing and Developing Monitoring Agents for ERP Systems 252
Introduction 252
Related Works 253
The Case Study 254
Experimental Protocol 254
Phase 1 – Measuring the Initial Degree of Performance 255
Data Analysis 256
Phase 2 – The ERP Probes 258
The Probes Development 259
Phase 3 – The New Business and IT Set Up 261
Conclusion and Future Works 262
References 262
Organizational Implications of Implementing ServiceOriented ERP Systems: An Analysis Based on New Institutional Economics 264
Introduction 264
Related Work and Theoretical Foundation 267
Implications of New Institutional Economics 269
Organization of the Implementation Process 271
Summary and Outlook 273
References 274
Author Index 276