Publications
During the year of 2022, the Interactive Technologies Institute research team has excelled in the production of scientific outputs. The team has successfully published 94 papers in journals, 76 in international conferences and 26 book chapters
2014
Pombinho, J.; Aveiro, David; Tribolet, J.
A Matching Ontology for e3Value and DEMO – A Sound Bridging of Business Modelling and Enterprise Engineering Conference
Business Informatics (CBI), 2014 IEEE 16th Conference on, vol. 2, 2014.
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abstract = {<p>In this paper, we present a match between two ontologies, DEMO and e3Value, with the aim of bridging the gap between Business Modelling and Enterprise Engineering. The goal is to provide an objective set of concepts for integrating the teleological and ontological perspectives of a system. DEMO contributes to the constructability of a business model, by providing a theory and method for designing and engineering enterprises. E3Value contributes to the justifiability of a given system construction, providing the notion of purpose through value semantics, network context and economic concepts, such as reciprocity. The ontology matching effort was guided to address three essential alignment areas: Value Object, Actor and Transaction. Then, additional elements were added to enrich and further ground the integrated models on theory from both sides. The resulting ontology includes a formal definition of shared core concepts and introduces positive constraints which, we argue, improve system model quality by combining two relevant and complementary approaches.</p>},
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<p>In this paper, we present a match between two ontologies, DEMO and e3Value, with the aim of bridging the gap between Business Modelling and Enterprise Engineering. The goal is to provide an objective set of concepts for integrating the teleological and ontological perspectives of a system. DEMO contributes to the constructability of a business model, by providing a theory and method for designing and engineering enterprises. E3Value contributes to the justifiability of a given system construction, providing the notion of purpose through value semantics, network context and economic concepts, such as reciprocity. The ontology matching effort was guided to address three essential alignment areas: Value Object, Actor and Transaction. Then, additional elements were added to enrich and further ground the integrated models on theory from both sides. The resulting ontology includes a formal definition of shared core concepts and introduces positive constraints which, we argue, improve system model quality by combining two relevant and complementary approaches.</p>
2012
Pombinho, J.; Aveiro, David; Tribolet, J.
Business Service Definition in Enterprise Engineering - A Value-oriented Approach Proceedings
IEEE, Beijing, 2012.
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title = {Business Service Definition in Enterprise Engineering - A Value-oriented Approach},
author = {J. Pombinho and David Aveiro and J. Tribolet},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-09-01},
journal = {Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2012 IEEE 16th International},
pages = {70-79},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {Beijing},
abstract = {<p>Enterprise Engineering is a means of applying engineering method to Enterprise Architecture, developing and evolving the mapping enterprise strategy to its resources. The potential benefits of service orientation have long been considered a driver for Enterprise Engineering. However, the service development discipline as a whole is still in it early stages. Do-main-specific frameworks and methodologies exist but none effectively deals with the teleological aspects of services, generally dismissed as subjective matter. In this paper, we analyze relevant state of the art in the areas of General Systems Theory, Service Science, Enterprise Engineering, Value Modeling, Enterprise Architecture and Business Modeling. The main shortcomings identified essentially reside in the lack of capability to model the purpose of a given service system in a structured way to guide current and future development efforts, which also implies having flexibly dealing with relativity of enterprise frontier definition. To address these issues, our research is focused on modeling different perspectives of enterprises as service systems, along three perspectives, namely construction, function and contribution. The approach presented in this paper involves 1) distinguishing the three mentioned perspectives and 2) articulating the concepts of each perspective so that an end-to-end, integrated, model is provided. The most distinguishing feature is using the concept of value proposal of a system to express the motivation that drives its development. We propose to follow an engineering approach that is grounded on social actor communication theory, taking into account the social meaning of service provisioning and consumption. Moreover, the mapping of this model to the elements that compose a system should be supported by design. To this end, both e3Value, from Value Modeling, and DEMO, from Enterprise Engineering, are considered and their integration is described.</p>},
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<p>Enterprise Engineering is a means of applying engineering method to Enterprise Architecture, developing and evolving the mapping enterprise strategy to its resources. The potential benefits of service orientation have long been considered a driver for Enterprise Engineering. However, the service development discipline as a whole is still in it early stages. Do-main-specific frameworks and methodologies exist but none effectively deals with the teleological aspects of services, generally dismissed as subjective matter. In this paper, we analyze relevant state of the art in the areas of General Systems Theory, Service Science, Enterprise Engineering, Value Modeling, Enterprise Architecture and Business Modeling. The main shortcomings identified essentially reside in the lack of capability to model the purpose of a given service system in a structured way to guide current and future development efforts, which also implies having flexibly dealing with relativity of enterprise frontier definition. To address these issues, our research is focused on modeling different perspectives of enterprises as service systems, along three perspectives, namely construction, function and contribution. The approach presented in this paper involves 1) distinguishing the three mentioned perspectives and 2) articulating the concepts of each perspective so that an end-to-end, integrated, model is provided. The most distinguishing feature is using the concept of value proposal of a system to express the motivation that drives its development. We propose to follow an engineering approach that is grounded on social actor communication theory, taking into account the social meaning of service provisioning and consumption. Moreover, the mapping of this model to the elements that compose a system should be supported by design. To this end, both e3Value, from Value Modeling, and DEMO, from Enterprise Engineering, are considered and their integration is described.</p>