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Conceptual modeling for the design of intelligent and emergent information systems
A key requirement to today's fast changing economic environment is the ability of organizations to adapt dynamically in an effective and efficient manner. Information and Communication Technologies play a crucially important role in addressing such adaptation requirements. The notion of `intelligent software' has emerged as a means by which enterprises can respond to changes in a reactive manner but also to explore, in a pro-active manner, possibilities for new business models. The development of such software systems demands analysis, design and implementation paradigms that recognize the need for ‘co-development’ of these systems with enterprise goals, processes and capabilities. The work presented in this paper is motivated by this need and to this end it proposes a paradigm that recognizes co-development as a knowledge-based activity. The proposed solution is based on a multi-perspective modeling approach that involves (i) modeling key aspects of the enterprise, (ii) reasoning about design choices and (iii) supporting strategic decision-making through simulations. The utility of the approach is demonstrated though a case study in the field of marketing for a start-up company
An Ontological-based Model for Competences in Sustainable Development Projects: a Case Study for Project’s Commercial Activities
The paper presents a project management competencies model, using an ontological approach. The ontology, named PMCatalog, was developed in the framework of the project CONTO, financed by Romanian through the grant 91-037/2007. PMCatalog is consistent with the competence definition and PM competence elements included in the International Competence Baseline, the competency standard of the International Project Management Association. The main PMCatalog’s use cases for commercial activities in sustainable development projects are described. Ontology was developed using the Protégé editor.competence, project management, sustainable development, commercial activities
Cyber Threat Intelligence Model: An Evaluation of Taxonomies, Sharing Standards, and Ontologies within Cyber Threat Intelligence
Cyber threat intelligence is the provision of evidence-based knowledge about
existing or emerging threats. Benefits of threat intelligence include increased
situational awareness and efficiency in security operations and improved
prevention, detection, and response capabilities. To process, analyze, and
correlate vast amounts of threat information and derive highly contextual
intelligence that can be shared and consumed in meaningful times requires
utilizing machine-understandable knowledge representation formats that embed
the industry-required expressivity and are unambiguous. To a large extend, this
is achieved by technologies like ontologies, interoperability schemas, and
taxonomies. This research evaluates existing cyber-threat-intelligence-relevant
ontologies, sharing standards, and taxonomies for the purpose of measuring
their high-level conceptual expressivity with regards to the who, what, why,
where, when, and how elements of an adversarial attack in addition to courses
of action and technical indicators. The results confirmed that little emphasis
has been given to developing a comprehensive cyber threat intelligence ontology
with existing efforts not being thoroughly designed, non-interoperable and
ambiguous, and lacking semantic reasoning capability
Systems Interoperability Types: A Tertiary Study
Interoperability has been a focus of attention over at least four decades,
with the emergence of several interoperability types (or levels), diverse
models, frameworks, and solutions, also as a result of a continuous effort from
different domains. The current heterogeneity in technologies such as
blockchain, IoT and new application domains such as Industry 4.0 brings not
only new interaction possibilities but also challenges for interoperability.
Moreover, confusion and ambiguity in the current understanding of
interoperability types exist, hampering stakeholders' communication and
decision making. This work presents an updated panorama of software-intensive
systems interoperability with particular attention to its types. For this, we
conducted a tertiary study that scrutinized 37 secondary studies published from
2012 to 2023, from which we found 36 interoperability types associated with 117
different definitions, besides 13 interoperability models and six frameworks in
various domains. This panorama reveals that the concern with interoperability
has migrated from technical to social-technical issues going beyond the
software systems' boundary and still requiring solving many open issues. We
also address the urgent actions and also potential research opportunities to
leverage interoperability as a multidisciplinary research field to achieve
low-coupled, cost-effective, and interoperable systems.Comment: 33 page
A Conceptual Framework For Structuring An IT Organization
Organizational efficiency and effectiveness result from aligning organizational needs and IT. Consequently, the structure of an IT Organization is crucial for obtaining good results, particularly in product and service delivery. However, in spite of the importance that IT Organization might have, no relevant documentation about its structure is found. As a result, using the Portuguese Navy as a case study to the design research, this paper aims at reviewing the main related research work and proposes a conceptual framework for structuring an IT organization. Through the proposed framework, it is possible to rationally structure an IT organization and, thus, contribute to the research in this area
An Ontology for Product-Service Systems
Industries are transforming their business strategy from a product-centric to a more service-centric nature by bundling products and services into integrated solutions to enhance the relationship between their customers. Since Product- Service Systems design research is currently at a rudimentary stage, the development of a robust ontology for this area would be helpful. The advantages of a standardized ontology are that it could help researchers and practitioners to communicate their views without ambiguity and thus encourage the conception and implementation of useful methods and tools. In this paper, an initial structure of a PSS ontology from the design perspective is proposed and evaluated
An Approach to Transform Public Administration into SOA-based Organizations
Nowadays, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is widely spread in private organizations. However, when transferring this knowledge to Public Administration, it is realized that it has not been transformed in terms
of its legal nature into organizations capable to operate under the SOA paradigm. This fact prevents public
administration bodies from offering the efficient services they have been provided by different boards of
governments. A high-level framework to perform this transformation is proposed. Taking it as starting
point, an instance of a SOA Target Meta-Model can be obtained by means of an iterative and incremental
process based on the analysis of imperatives and focused on the particular business context of each local public administration. This paper briefly presents a practical experience consisting in applying this process
to a Spanish regional public administration.Junta de AndalucÃa TIC-578
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