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2023 | Buch

Model-Driven Organizational and Business Agility

Third International Workshop, MOBA 2023, Zaragoza, Spain, June 12–13, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

herausgegeben von: Eduard Babkin, Joseph Barjis, Pavel Malyzhenkov, Vojtěch Merunka, Martin Molhanec

Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buchreihe : Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Über dieses Buch

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Model-Driven Organizational and Business Agility, MOBA 2023, which took place in Zaragoza, Spain, in June 2023.

MOBA was launched with the purpose of fetching scientific rigor into the agile practice within an entire enterprise, especially focusing on the role of models and modeling.

The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They cover topics like business intelligence, agile business rules, agile software development, adaptive domain-specific interfaces, or reconfigurable software architectures.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Strategic Agility in Practice: Experts’ Opinions on the Applicability of a Model-Driven Framework
Abstract
Strategic agility constitutes a topic that is more and more popular in the field of IT adoption. Traditional (operational) agile development has indeed been very successful and has profoundly impacted the industry of software development so that professionals are aiming to apply the receipt at an higher level. Strategic agility is nevertheless mostly considered as something that can be obtained through the right mentality and organizational structures rather than a method that can be applied in a way. Strategic Agile Model Driven IT Governance (StratAMoDrIGo) framework has proposed a model-driven methodology to be applied in an organization to help it dealing with moving business context, recognize strategic opportunities and adopt them in an agile way. The framework has been presented and validated in a journal article, the present paper further collects opinions and considerations of industry experts on strategic agility in general and on StrataMoDrIGo in particular.
Konstantinos Tsilionis, Yves Wautelet, Lena Truyers, Yan Din
Comparing the Expressiveness of Imperative and Declarative Process Models
Abstract
Since the advent of so-called declarative process modeling languages in addition to the previously known imperative languages, the business process management community has been confronted with a lot of new possibilities and challenges regarding modeling and interpreting business processes. In general, these declarative languages are better suited for flexible processes, i.e. processes which lead a lot of open decisions to the model executor and hence have got a relatively large amount of execution paths, whereas imperative languages are mainly used to formalize routine processes. Of course, the question arises whether a declarative or an imperative approach fits better for a specific application. In this paper we handle this issue and present a method based on automata theory, which supports the process modeler in making this decision. Furthermore, we present a comparison method which makes it possible to check given imperative and declarative process models for equality. We finally evaluate our approach by implementing a Java tool and calculating practical examples.
Nicolai Schützenmeier, Stefan Jablonski, Martin Käppel, Lars Ackermann
Deriving Relational Normalisation from Conceptual Normalisation
Abstract
This article argues that relational normalisation can be derived from conceptual normalisation. First, relational normalisation, which is widely known, is introduced. Furthermore, the conceptual normalisation presented by the Author in his previous articles is presented. Finally, the Author shows how relational normalisation can be derived from conceptual normalisation. In the end, the Author outlines the further possible development of his work in this area.
Martin Molhanec
Application of an Agent-Based Simulation for a Definition of a Trade-Off Retail Price Promotion Strategy
Abstract
A good pricing strategy is a key aspect of the company’s product success. In the context of business agility, the company's ability to quickly respond to changes in purchasing power and demand allows not only to take a leading position in the market, but also guarantee its development for years to come. However, the interactions between companies and customers add complexity to companies pricing decisions. On the other hand, there are agent-based approach, which can help to analyze pricing strategy, focusing on the interactions between companies and customers. Customer buying decisions are influenced by several customer preferences factors, while product prices depend on the company’s promotion strategy. The promotion is applied based on the frequency and depth of the price cut. The results show that the limited rationality and interactions of each agent drive the unique behavior of the system and affect companies profit and market share according to its pricing strategy.
Boris Ulitin, Eduard Babkin, Tatiana Babkina, Igor Ulitin, Marina Zubova
Business Process Models and Eye Tracking System for BPMN Evaluation-Usability Study
Abstract
This paper deals with eye tracking system used for BPMN models usability testing. The research was based on participants running eye tracking tests relating to typical real-life situations by focusing on documenting the processes involved in real-life testing of the below areas. Eye tracking can help us record what catches a user’s eye on a visual display. It can give invaluable insight into the process model by BPMN. It has a potential to become an industry standard for designing and developing process models. There has been a perfect start of progress in eye tracking technologies to make participants friendly.
Josef Pavlicek, Petra Pavlickova, Alžběta Pokorná, Matej Brnka
ANP Model as a Support to Decide the Project Management Style
Abstract
Agile methods in project management are trending as a reaction to the growing and changing business environment. Choosing a proper approach to managing a project is difficult. Many criteria need to be considered. Nowadays, two main approaches to project management are used -agile and waterfall. In the waterfall approach, project phases are in sequence. It means that the customer gets results at the end of the project. Agile methods are based on iterations and increments. The customer is involved in the whole project and provides feedback on the incremental product.
This paper discusses creating an Analytic Network Process (ANP) model, which can provide multi-criteria decision-making. In this paper, clusters and relations are established. Clusters composition comes out on the international project management standard PRINCE2® Agile, Agile Manifesto and SCRUM Guide. Clusters include project management triangle (or hexagon), team characteristics (location, working style and communication) and team members’ characteristics (T–Shape, Pi–Shape, I–Shape, X–Shape).
Matej Brnka, Petra Pavlickova, Jan Rydval, Josef Pavlicek
Character Segmentation in the Development of Palmyrene Aramaic OCR
Abstract
In this study, we present the research plan and the segmentation solution in progress for our Palmyrene OCR web and mobile application from sandstone tablet photographs, which will be publicly available on the ml-research.pef.czu.cz web portal in the next steps of the research. In this paper, we compare mathematical segmentation methods with artificial intelligence methods, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each solution, and propose a fully automated OCR procedure from photographs using convolutional neural networks exclusively and present a development model of our solution. We also present a partially completed segmentation dataset of the Palmyrene letters to demonstrate the functionality of the proposed procedure. We hope to complete the Palmyrene OCR soon, thus making the writings of ancient Palmyra accessible to the scientific community and the public, signifying progress in the area of Digital Humanities. Since the algorithm is not completely ready yet, we also present its development model here.
Adéla Hamplová, David Franc, Josef Pavlicek
On the Relevance of Explanation for RDF Resources Similarity
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been shown to productively affect organizational decision making, in terms of returned economic value. In particular, agile business may significantly benefit from the ability of AI systems to constantly pursue contextual knowledge awareness. Undoubtedly, a key added value of such systems is the ability to explain results. In fact, users are more inclined to trust and feel the accountability of systems, when the output is returned together with a human-readable explanation. Nevertheless, some of the information in an explanation might be irrelevant to users—despite its truthfulness. This paper discusses the relevance of explanation for resources similarity, provided by AI systems. In particular, the analysis focuses on one system based on Large Language Models (LLMs)—namely ChatGPT— and on one logic-based tool relying on the computation of the Least Common Subsumer in the Resource Description Framework (RDF). This discussion reveals the need for a formal distinction between relevant and irrelevant information, that we try to answer with a definition of relevance amenable to implementation.
Simona Colucci, Francesco M. Donini, Eugenio Di Sciascio
Transformation of Class Hierarchies During Agile Software Development in UML
Abstract
This article discusses support for the UML standard in the Agile software development. There are described some of the weaknesses of the UML standard that software developers should know about to take full advantage of this otherwise very good and desirable standard. Specifically, it is a hierarchy of object classes, which belongs to the basic concepts of the object-oriented paradigm. This hierarchy is considered well known, but in fact there are three slightly different hierarchies that fortunately fit well with the MDA philosophy. The problem is mainly that all these three hierarchies appear in UML in the same way, as if they were just one type of hierarchy. The article describes and explains these differences and suggests a refinement to the UML using stereotypes. The conclusions written in this article are a summary of the authors’ experience of agile software projects having reduced formal documentation for the international consulting company Deloitte, Czech system integrator of telecommunications applications Datalite Ltd. and of university research and education.
Vojtěch Merunka, Himesha Wijekoon, Boris Schegolev
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Model-Driven Organizational and Business Agility
herausgegeben von
Eduard Babkin
Joseph Barjis
Pavel Malyzhenkov
Vojtěch Merunka
Martin Molhanec
Copyright-Jahr
2023
Electronic ISBN
978-3-031-45010-5
Print ISBN
978-3-031-45009-9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45010-5

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