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  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    A Case for a New IT Ecosystem: On-The-Fly Computing
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 62, No. 6, 2020) Karl, Holger; Kundisch, Dennis; Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm; Wehrheim, Heike
    The complexity of development and deployment in today’s IT world is enormous. Despite the existence of so many pre-fabricated components, frameworks, cloud providers, etc., building IT systems still remains a major challenge and most likely overtaxes even a single ambitious developer. This results in spreading such development and deployment tasks over different team members with their own specialization. Nevertheless, not even highly competent IT personnel can easily succeed in developing and deploying a nontrivial application that comprises a multitude of different components running on different platforms (from frontend to backend). Current industry trends such as DevOps strive to keep development and deployment tasks tightly integrated. This, however, only partially addresses the underlying complexity of either of these two tasks. But would it not be desirable to simplify these tasks in the first place, enabling one person – maybe even a non-expert – to deal with all of them? Today’s approaches to the development and deployment of complex IT applications are not up to this challenge. “On-The-Fly Computing” offers an approach to tackle this challenge by providing complex IT services through largely automated configuration and execution. The configuration of such services is based on simple, flexibly combinable services that are provided by different software providers and traded in a market. This constitutes a highly relevant challenge for research in many branches of computer science, information systems, business administration, and economics. In this research note, it is analyzed which pieces of this new “On-The-Fly Computing” ecosystem already exist and where additional, often significant research efforts are necessary.
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    A Configuration Taxonomy of Business Process Orientation
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 64, No. 2, 2022) Van Looy, Amy; Trkman, Peter; Clarysse, Els
    Organizations strive to develop a variety of capabilities to improve and measure business processes. Researchers have used various maturity models to investigate the development of a business process orientation (BPO), and most have argued that such a development comes in stages. Current literature underestimates the interrelationships between BPO capabilities and fails to consider multidimensional or non-linear paths to maturity. To refine the features of maturity models, this study relies on configuration theory to uncover different archetypes for BPO development and quantitatively evaluate them by examining performance differences among archetypes based on a large-scale international dataset. The resulting empirical taxonomy with seven BPO archetypes establishes important performance differences between organizations at a similar maturity level. Besides strengthening the theoretical foundations of BPO and making maturity assessments more multifaceted, the results help organizations give their managerial efforts a focus by enabling comparison with peers in the same archetype and showing various paths for BPO improvement.
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    Konstruktion von Referenzmodellierungssprachen Ein Ordnungsrahmen zur Spezifikation von Adaptionsmechanismen für Informationsmodelle
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 46, No. 4, 2004) Becker, Jörg; Delfmann, Patrick; Knackstedt, Ralf
    Construction of Reference Modeling Languages — A Framework for the Specification of Adaptation Mechanisms for Conceptual Information Models Reference modeling languages differ from each other as they use different model types (such as process or data models) and as they provide different mechanisms that allow an adaptation of the reference model to specific contexts. The developer of the reference modeling language has to decide which adaptation technique he wants to use (e. g. configuration, aggregation, instantiation, specialization or analogy construction) and which of these techniques he wants to integrate into the language specification. In this paper, these adaptation techniques are compared, and reference solutions for the specification of extended reference modeling languages are proposed. The introduced solutions are structured by a methodical framework that assigns modeling examples and meta-models as well as meta-meta-models to the different adaptation techniques. Based on this framework, possible combinations of configurative adaptation mechanisms with aggregative, instantiation based, specialization based and analogy construction based mechanisms are discussed.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Model-Based Generation of Software Configurations in Mechatronic Systems
    (Modellierung 2020, 2020) Paczona, Martin; Mayr, Heinrich C.; Prochart, Guenter
    An essential part of the mechatronic system is the software, which is responsible to bring functionality into the system consisting of mechanical, electronic and electrical parts. The software must be tailored to the specific hardware to fulfill tasks (e.g. control, monitoring) according to the system requirements. In today‘s industrial practice, the design is mainly done manually. First the entire architecture is drawn using drawing tools. Based on this software developers derive the low-level specification using their low-level development environments. This is error prone and time-consuming due to the fact, that a large number of hardware parameters have to be taken in account and the informal specification does not allow to derive these parameters. To improve this we present here an approach where the overall architecture of the mechatronic system is described using a Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling Language (DSML) using the example of Electric Vehicle Testbeds. Based on this model the low-level software configurations are generated rule-based. In this paper we present the concepts of the DSML, explain the transformation rules and show the functionality of the generator by introducing a practical example.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Propagating Configuration Decisions with Modal Implication Graphs
    (Software Engineering and Software Management 2019, 2019) Krieter, Sebastian; Thüm, Thomas; Schulze, Sandro; Schroeter, Reimar; Saake, Gunter
    This work was originally published as “Propagating Configuration Decisions with Modal Implication Graphs” at the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering 2018 [Kr18].
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    Referenzmodellierung im Data-Warehousing — State-of-the-Art und konfigurative Ansätze für die Fachkonzeption
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 46, No. 1, 2004) Becker, Jörg; Knackstedt, Ralf
    Reference models increase the efficiency of data warehouse projects by providing construction patterns. This paper presents an overview of existing applications of reference models for data warehousing which shows that there is only insufficient support of model alternatives during requirements definition. Especially configurable reference models provide an adequate solution for creating project-specific models. Therefore, we suggest an extension of data warehouse modeling techniques by configuration rules. The configuration of reference models is embedded in the data warehouse development process. Furthermore, supplementary operational instructions for reference model designers are outlined.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    A Universal Configuration Format for Avionics
    (SE 2024 - Companion, 2024) Chrysalidis, Philipp; Thielecke, Frank
    Avionics module configuration, especially in the face of advancing technologies, will become more complex as computational demands rise. This requires a robust and automated approach while adhering to industry standards. However, state-of-the-art configuration is still highly error-prone and suffers from various stakeholders working with unsynchronized and decentralized data. This causes unnecessary iterations, leading to delays in development. The Universal Configuration Format for Avionics (UCoF), integrated into the AvioNET framework, presents a forward-looking solution. UCoF, built upon a meta-model approach, strives to enhance the configuration process through model-based methods. It meets essential configuration management requirements and offers versatility by supporting the configuration of diverse avionic platforms. Combining essential data for configuring real avionics device families, implementation targets and network design grants users access to a comprehensive data set throughout the configuration process.