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Creativity and the Age-Old Resistance to Change Problem in RE

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Creativity is about bringing unforeseen change to habitual ways of doing things. Understanding the challenges of introducing innovation in organizations is, therefore, essential during the requirements phase of today’s computer systems design projects. How ...

IEEE2006

VISUAL CONTRACTS: A way to reason about states and cardinalities in IT system specifications

Alain Wegmann, José Diego de la Cruz Garcia, Lam Son Lê

Visual modeling languages propose specialized diagrams to represent behaviour and concepts necessary to specify IT systems. As a result, to understand a specification, the modeller needs to analyze these two types of diagrams and, often, additional stateme ...

2006

Implementation of a Modeling Tool Using Alloy as Meta-Modeling Language and CrocoPat as Validation Tool

Alain Wegmann, Lotfi Hussami, Lam Son Lê, Dirk Thilo Beyer

The context of our work is a project that focuses on methods and tools for modeling enterprise architectures. An enterprise architecture model represents the structure of an enterprise across multiple levels, from the markets in which it operates down to t ...

2006

Validation of Visual Contracts for Services

Alain Wegmann, José Diego de la Cruz Garcia, Lam Son Lê

Visual modeling languages have specialized diagrams to represent behavior and concepts. This diagram specialization has drawbacks like the dif-ficulty to represent the effects of actions. We claim that visual contracts can de-scribe actions in a more compl ...

2006

Business Process Flexibility: Weick’s Organizational Theory to the Rescue

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

For organizations to flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Designing flexible business processes is a challenge. We use Weick’s theory of organizing to propose some principles for designing flexible business proc ...

2006

Definition of an Object-Oriented Modeling Language for Enterprise Architecture

Alain Wegmann, Lam Son Lê

In enterprise architecture, the goal is to integrate business resources and IT resources in order to improve an enterprises competitiveness. In an enterprise architecture project, the development team usually constructs a model that represents the enterpri ...

2005

An RM-ODP Based Ontology and a CAD Tool for Modeling Hierarchical Systems in Enterprise Architecture

Alain Wegmann, Lam Son Lê

Enterprise Architecture (EA) requires modeling enterprises across multiple levels (from markets down to IT systems) i.e. modeling hierarchical systems. Our goal is to build a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool for EA. To be able to build this CAD tool, we ne ...

2005

A Regulation-Based View on Business Process and Supporting System Flexibility

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Maintaining flexible business processes is a difficult task since a business process typically satisfies the needs of several stakeholders. In this pa-per we examine organizational flexibility and business processes from the point of view of the regulation ...

2005

A Method and Tool for Business-IT Alignment in Enterprise Architecture

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Pavel Balabko, Lam Son Lê, Irina Rychkova

Enterprise architects seek to align enterprise processes and structure with their supporting IT systems so that enterprises can flourish in their environment. The enterprise architecture (EA) discipline has emerged from business best practices. EA framewor ...

2005

Capturing Design Rationale with Functional Decomposition of Roles in Business Processes Modeling

Alain Wegmann, Pavel Balabko, Nicolas Clément

Enterprises need to create and maintain the fit between their business processes and their business process support (BPS) systems. This frequently requires re-engineering of business processes. If the business processes design ration-ales are made explicit ...

2005

Where do Goals Come From: the Underlying Principles of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Goal is a widely used concept in requirements engineering methods. Several kinds of goals, such as achievement, maintenance and soft goals, have been defined in these methods. These methods also define heuristics for the identification of organizational go ...

2005

Modelling the regulative role of business processes with use and misuse cases

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Business processes contain value-added and abuse prevention activities. Most modelling techniques do not provide a rationale for abuse prevention activities. Such a rationale is needed when redesigning business processes. In this paper we propose to consid ...

2005

Business and IT Alignment with SEAM

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Aligning business with IT requires understanding goals, strategies and needs. To be able to express them, an enterprise model can be developed. We present some of the traditional techniques used for the development of an enterprise model (value system, BPM ...

University of New South Wales Press2005

Defining Early IT System Requirements with Regulation Principles: The Lightswitch Approach

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

In this paper we present the Lightswitch approach, an approach for defining early requirements for enterprise IT systems. Using the approach, engineers can model the way an enterprise regulates its relationships with its environment, identify changing cond ...

2004

Remaining Fit: On the Creation and Maintenance of Fit

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

This paper serves as the introductory note to the Fifth Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS’04). The workshop focuses on the exploration of issues related to the fit between business processes and Business Process Support ...

2004

Why Do We Need Business Process Support? Balancing Specialization and Generalization with BPS Systems

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Businesses face a changing environment with an uncertain future. They need to specialize their business processes in order to become successful in the short term. This specialization, however, becomes a problem in the long term, when conditions change. A B ...

2003

Regulation Based Linking of Strategic Goals and Business Processes

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

To be able to make changes to a business process, it is necessary to understand how the process supports the strategic goals of the business and how changes to the goals may impact the process and vice versa. This paper explains the relations between strat ...

2002

Collaborative Concept Mapping on the World Wide Web

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The Collaborative Concept Mapping project is a joint research project between IMD and EPFL. The goal of the project is to create a collaborative tool that helps managers to define business strategies in the face of complex situations. Addressing complex pr ...

2001

Oxymoron, a Non-Distance Knowledge Sharing Tool for Social Science Students and Researchers

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Oxymoron is a World Wide Web based knowledge capitalization and sharing tool that was conceived and developed by a multidisciplinary team, comprised of adult education and distributed systems professionals from France and Switzerland. Oxymorons aim is to s ...

1999

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