Enterprise Evolution: A Discussion from Different Perspectives. Editorial Introduction to Issue 34 of CSIMQ

The current issue provides discussions on different topics that can be summarized as “Enterprise Evolution”. The selected articles continue and elaborate research that was presented in 2022 during workshops at the Perspectives in Business Informatics Research Conference – BIR 2022 in Rostock, Germany. The articles continue the research work presented at the conference, summarize the findings and provide deeper insights and new perspectives. The articles report on research results regarding ethical, social, and environmental accounting; support for post-merger information systems integration; enterprise architecture for inclusion of demand-responsive services in the overall enterprise architecture of transportation companies; and possibilities of SMEs to use robotic solutions for enhancing their processes

Pattern Catalogs using the Pattern Language Meta Language

This article focuses on the pattern language PLML. Some enhancements and corrections to it are proposed to make use of PLML in pattern catalogs. Additionally, a textual domain specific language as human-readable variant of PLML is proposed. Supporting editors, textual and graphical, which were developed using model-based techniques are presented

Selected Topics in Management and Modeling of Complex Systems: Editorial Introduction to Issue 16 of CSIMQ

The 16th issue of CSIMQ presents four articles that cover a wide range of research topics. The topics of this issue start with psychological aspects of sustainable behavior change within organizations while new technologies are introduced into a company. The range of topics ends with the discussion of specific algorithms that allow entity clustering for Big Data analysis. The goal of these algorithms is the identification of different notations of references that refer to the same real-world object. This entity resolution is also called dedublication. Additionally, an approach for modelling enterprise architecture visualizations is discussed. It is used to specify and develop an architecture cockpit for a company from the financial sector. Within the range of topics is also a paper about the concepts of shared spaces as basis for building business process support systems. In the paper, a generic model is suggested that supports the comparison, analysis, and design of business process support systems

Selected Topics in Management and Modeling of Complex Systems: Editorial Introduction to Issue 15 of CSIMQ

The 15th issue of CSIMQ presents articles discussing management and modeling aspects of informatics research. The provided models and their application help to understand the domains under discussion. The models range from socio-technical models over business process models to models of usable graphical interfaces. Readers might find a lot of interesting aspects in this broad spectrum of management and modeling research. The published articles support management and modeling of complex systems in different ways on different levels of abstraction. The research results reflected in the articles can help to fill knowledge gaps and facilitate decision making in project management, business process management, very complex domain analysis, and data-intensive cyber-physical systems engineering

Tuning an HCI Curriculum for Master Students to Address Interactive Critical Systems Aspects

International audienceThis paper presents the need for specific curricula in order to address the training of specialists in the area of Interactive Critical Systems. Indeed, while curricula are usually built in order to produce specialists in one discipline (e.g. computer science) dealing with systems or products requires training in multiple disciplines. The area of Interactive Critical Systems requires deep knowledge in computer science, dependability, Human-Computer Interaction and safety engineering. We report in this paper how these various disciplines have been integrated in a master program at Université Toulouse III, France and highlight the carrier paths followed by the graduated students and how these carriers are oriented towards aeronautics and space application domains

HCI-Task Models and Smart Environments

Abstract The paper discusses the idea of using HCI-task models to support smart environments. It introduces a collaborative task modeling language CTML that allows the specification of collaboration and comprehensive dependencies in an OCL-like style. Additionally some ideas are presented that allow informing users and usability experts about the state of actors within smart environments. The paper provides the first results of a prototypical implementation

Task models as basis for requirements engineering and software execution

ABSTRACT In this paper we discuss an approach linking GUI specifications to abstract dialog models. Both specifications are based on task models describing behavioral features. It will be shown how first prototypes of interactive systems, which are generated from user interface models, can help to capture requirements. Users can interactively play with prototypes. Tool support is also provided for co-operative work of different users, which starts with abstract canonical prototypes that can evolve to concrete GUI specifications

Outcome of primary percutaneous stent-revascularization in patients with atherosclerotic acute mesenteric ischemia

Background: Patients with acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) often exhibit severe co-morbidities and significant surgical risks, leading to high perioperative morbidity. Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of primary percutaneous stent-revascularization (PPSR) in atherosclerotic AMI and its impact on patients' outcome. Material and Methods: Retrospective analysis of 19 consecutive patients (7 women, 12 men;median age, 69 years) with AMI caused by atherosclerotic, non-embolic stenoses/occlusions of the splanchnic arteries and PPSR. Alternative minimally invasive techniques were excluded. Clinical characteristics including the Charlson Comorbidity Index adjusted by age (CCIa) and symptom duration, technical and clinical success of PPSR, clinical course, 30-day mortality, and follow-up were evaluated and compared to literature data for surgical approaches. Technical success was defined as residual stenosis of 4 in 17 of 19 patients, 89%). Median symptom duration was 50 h. Technical and clinical success rates of PPSR were 95% (21 of 22 arteries) and 53% (10 of 19 patients). Seven patients underwent subsequent laparotomy with bowel resection in four cases. Thirty-day mortality was 42% (8 of 19 patients). Conclusion: In our study population of patients with atherosclerotic AMI, severe co-morbidities, prolonged acute symptoms, and significant perioperative risks PPSR of splanchnic stenoses were technically feasible and the clinical outcome was acceptable

Proceedings of the workshops co-organized with the 13th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2020)

Workshops co-organized with the 13th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modellin