DEMO Models Based Automatic Smart Contract Generation: A Case in Logistics Using Hyperledger

This article presents a practical research project aimed at developing a method for automatically generating smart contracts from business models. The project has as a context the logistics in- dustry and uses Hyperledger Fabric as the blockchain (BC) platform. The main contributions are a mapping from DEMO (Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations) language to Hyperledger Chaincode using GO language, as well as an evolution of DEMO’s Action Model Grammar, that enable specification of elements necessary for automatic SC generation. The proposed approach extends the DEMO methodology so that it includes an SC concern, enabling the generation of reusable action rule specifications and other elements necessary for SC genera- tion. Our research contributes to combining the strengths of the DEMO methodology and smart contracts. The design and implementation considerations of this approach are discussed in de- tail, and the results can be applied in future business cases requiring enterprise interoperability supported by distributed ledger technology

Short Paper: A Comparative Analysis of Open-Source Business Intelligence Platforms for Integration with a Low-Code Platform

This paper’s main contributions are the comparative analysis of open source business intelli- gence platforms, having as background aim, the selection of the most appropriate one for its integration in an open source low-code platform we are developing. We researched the state-of- the art and selected nine platforms for a first and more general analysis. Out of these nine, four were then selected for a more thorough and detailed analysis and testing. The best two of this set were then selected for the implementation of concrete integration tests with our low-code platform. During the process, one of them revealed to have critical problems and the other was integrated successfully, with functional results achieving the best expectations. Thus, another main contribution of this paper is the identification of the current best candidate open source business intelligence platform for integration with a low-code platform

A visão dos conceitos de Informação e Tecnologia à luz da Engenharia Organizacional

Apresenta o campo da engenharia organizacional, bem como o método DEMO de desenho e engenharia para organizações (do inglês: Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations – DEMO) e como se pode perspectivar de maneira menos ambígua os conceitos de informação e tecnologia. Vários conceitos fundamentais são introduzidos, seguindo-se a apresentação de dois casos de estudo, confirmando alguns dos benefícios providenciados pelo método DEMO

Uso de fuentes de información y tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) según el tipo de universidsad en siete países de América Latina

Objetivos: Identificar el uso de fuentes de información, así como, tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) según el tipo de universidad en siete países de América Latina.Métodos:Estudio transversal en estudiantes de medicina de siete países de América Latina. Se midió el uso de fuentes y tecnologías de información y comunicación con el autoreporte sobre el uso de buscadores científicos (SciELO, PubMed, Google Scholar) y TIC (laptop, smartphone, wifi). Las variables secundarias fueron el país y el tipo de universidad de procedencia (pública/privada) de los estudiantes de medicina. Resultados: De 4463 encuestados, SciELO fue usado por el 83.3% y el 55.0% en una universidad pública y privada, respectivamente. Mientras que PubMed fue reportado por el 79.9% y 59.2% de estudiantes de universidad pública y privada, respectivamente. Las universidades privadas tuvieron mayor uso de TIC en Panamá y Bolivia, en contraste con aquellas de tipo públicas fueron Paraguay, México, Colombia y Argentina. La mayoría de los estudiantes usaban smartphone en más del 60%. Conclusiones: Se identificó que el smartphone fue utilizado por la mayoría de los estudiantes. El uso de Internet fue mayor en estudiantes de universidades privadas, además, no se encontraron grandes porcentajes del uso de PubMed y SciELO, en universidades públicas y privadas. Se deben reforzar las estrategias educativas en el campo de la educación médica, debido a pobre cultura de manejo de información basada en evidencias

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An ontology for organizational functions: the recursive self-maintenance mechanism of the enterprise

Although there have been great advances in business process modeling as a means to better understand and control organizations and improve the development of information systems, the existence of functions- like IT, logistics, financial, etc.- is an inescapable reality in organizations, that strongly influences aspects like change processes, or the formation of organizational units, even if a culture of "process orientation " is established. This paper tries to clarify the concept of organizational function, discusses certain organizational artifacts that seem to be of a functional nature and proposes an ontology for the purpose of allowing a consistent and coherent modeling of this recursive self-maintenanc

Advances in Enterprise Engineering VISecond Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2012, Delft, The Netherlands, May 7-8, 2012. Proceedings /

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Advances in Enterprise Engineering VIIThird Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2013, Luxembourg, May 13-14, 2013. Proceedings /

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