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Surfacing ERP exploitation risks through a risk ontology
Purpose â The purpose of this paper is to develop a risk identification checklist for facilitating user companies to surface, organise and manage potential risks associated with the post-adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
Design/methodology/approach â A desktop study, based on the process of a critical literature review, was conducted by the researchers. The critical review focused on IS and business research papers, books, case studies and theoretical articles, etc.
Findings â By systematically and critically analysing and synthesising the literature reviewed, the researchers identified and proposed a total of 40 ERP post-implementation risks related to diverse operational, analytical, organisation-wide and technical aspects. A risk ontology was subsequently established to highlight these ERP risks, as well as to present their potential causal relationships.
Research limitations/implications â For researchers, the established ERP risk ontology represents a starting point for further research, and provides early insights into a research field that will become increasingly important as more and more companies progress from implementation to exploitation of ERPs.
Practical implications â For practitioners, the risk ontology is an important tool and checklist to support risk identification, prevention, management and control, as well as to facilitate strategic planning and decision making.
Originality/value â There is a scarcity of studies focusing on ERP post-implementation in contrast with an over abundance of studies focusing on system implementation and project management aspects. This paper aims to fill this significant research gap by presenting a risk ontology of ERP post-adoption. It represents a first attempt in producing a comprehensive model in its area. No other such models could be found from the literature reviewed
The transaction pattern through automating TrAM
Transaction Agent Modelling (TrAM) has demonstrated how the early requirements of complex enterprise systems can be captured and described in a lucid yet rigorous way. Using Geerts and McCarthyâs REA (Resource-Events-Agents) model as its basis, the TrAM process manages to capture the âqualitativeâ dimensions of business transactions and business processes. A key part of the process is automated model-checking, which CG has revealed to be beneficial in this regard. It enables models to retain the high-level business concepts yet providing a formal structure at that high-level that is lacking in Use Cases. Using a conceptual catalogue informed by transactions, we illustrate the automation of a transaction pattern from which further specialisations impart a tested specification for system implementation, which we envisage as a multi-agent system in order to reflect the dynamic world of business activity. It would furthermore be able to interoperate across business domains as they would share the generalised TM as a pattern.</p
Logic Programming Applications: What Are the Abstractions and Implementations?
This article presents an overview of applications of logic programming,
classifying them based on the abstractions and implementations of logic
languages that support the applications. The three key abstractions are join,
recursion, and constraint. Their essential implementations are for-loops, fixed
points, and backtracking, respectively. The corresponding kinds of applications
are database queries, inductive analysis, and combinatorial search,
respectively. We also discuss language extensions and programming paradigms,
summarize example application problems by application areas, and touch on
example systems that support variants of the abstractions with different
implementations
A Framework for Semi-automated Web Service Composition in Semantic Web
Number of web services available on Internet and its usage are increasing
very fast. In many cases, one service is not enough to complete the business
requirement; composition of web services is carried out. Autonomous composition
of web services to achieve new functionality is generating considerable
attention in semantic web domain. Development time and effort for new
applications can be reduced with service composition. Various approaches to
carry out automated composition of web services are discussed in literature.
Web service composition using ontologies is one of the effective approaches. In
this paper we demonstrate how the ontology based composition can be made faster
for each customer. We propose a framework to provide precomposed web services
to fulfil user requirements. We detail how ontology merging can be used for
composition which expedites the whole process. We discuss how framework
provides customer specific ontology merging and repository. We also elaborate
on how merging of ontologies is carried out.Comment: 6 pages, 9 figures; CUBE 2013 International Conferenc
Improving Information Flow within the Production Management System with Web Services
The efficiency of the production planning and control process in construction depends
significantly on the reliability and timely availability of resource information. The
Last Planner system for production control mandates that a construction task should
not be started unless all the seven resource prerequisites are in satisfactory condition.
Failure to do so results in wasteful processes. However, this information is not readily
available due to the lack of systems integration that prevails within the industry. Current implementations of the last planner system mostly rely on the team leadersâ and foremanâs ability to gather the required information for the weekly planning meetings and also for the look-ahead planning. However, much time is wasted chasing relevant information due to the above-mentioned problems. Also, the reliability of planning could be much improved if there is a system available, which aggregates resource information from various project stakeholders in one place. In such a situation, web services could provide an ideal platform for integration as they provide a flexible way to integrate disparate systems, with choreography based on identified business processes drawn from Last Planner and implemented using BPMN/BPEL. With the improvement in connectivity as a result of better availability
of high speed Internet through mobile and fixed networks, there is a better opportunity for information integration through web services. A conceptual framework based on web services is put forward which aims to improve the information flow within the industry and provide the right information at the right time to enable better planning and control within the production system
Philosophy of Blockchain Technology - Ontologies
About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in Blockchain Technology I explain the way the blockchain works, discussing ontological development directions of this technology in Designing and Modeling. The next section is dedicated to the main application of blockchain technology, Bitcoin, with the social implications of this cryptocurrency. There follows a section of Philosophy in which I identify the blockchain technology with the concept of heterotopia developed by Michel Foucault and I interpret it in the light of the notational technology developed by Nelson Goodman as a notational system. In the Ontology section, I present two developmental paths that I consider important: Narrative Ontology, based on the idea of order and structure of history transmitted through Paul Ricoeur's narrative history, and the Enterprise Ontology system based on concepts and models of an enterprise, specific to the semantic web, and which I consider to be the most well developed and which will probably become the formal ontological system, at least in terms of the economic and legal aspects of blockchain technology. In Conclusions I am talking about the future directions of developing the blockchain technology philosophy in general as an explanatory and robust theory from a phenomenologically consistent point of view, which allows testability and ontologies in particular, arguing for the need of a global adoption of an ontological system for develop cross-cutting solutions and to make this technology profitable.
CONTENTS:
Abstract
Introducere
Tehnologia blockchain
- Proiectare
- Modele
Bitcoin
Filosofia
Ontologii
- Ontologii narative
- Ontologii de intreprindere
Concluzii
Note
Bibliografie
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24510.3360
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