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
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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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>
Pombinho, J.; Aveiro, David; Tribolet, J.
Towards Value-Oriented Enterprise Engineering – Relativity in Service System Networks Book Chapter
In: Rahman, Hakikur; Mesquita, Anabela; Ramos, Isabel; Pernici, Barbara (Ed.): Knowledge and Technologies in Innovative Information Systems, vol. 129, pp. 113-124, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-642-33243-2.
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title = {Towards Value-Oriented Enterprise Engineering – Relativity in Service System Networks},
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abstract = {<p>Defining the purpose of a system is non-trivial as, by definition, it arises from the relation with its environment. In this paper, we analyze relevant state of the art in the areas of General Systems Theory, Enterprise Engineering, Value Modeling, Enterprise Architecture and Business Modeling. Their main shortcoming essentially resides in lack of flexibly dealing with relativity of enterprise frontier definition. To address this issue, our research is focused on modeling different perspectives of enterprises as systems, 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. To this end, we propose a conceptual framework that supports recursive contribution definition, by design. Specifying the value in a contribution perspective allows improved specification of the rationale behind value network establishment and system/subsystem bonding. We can now specify how each component of a system S contributes (provides value) not only to the purpose of S but to other purposes present in the value chains S participates in.</p>},
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<p>Defining the purpose of a system is non-trivial as, by definition, it arises from the relation with its environment. In this paper, we analyze relevant state of the art in the areas of General Systems Theory, Enterprise Engineering, Value Modeling, Enterprise Architecture and Business Modeling. Their main shortcoming essentially resides in lack of flexibly dealing with relativity of enterprise frontier definition. To address this issue, our research is focused on modeling different perspectives of enterprises as systems, 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. To this end, we propose a conceptual framework that supports recursive contribution definition, by design. Specifying the value in a contribution perspective allows improved specification of the rationale behind value network establishment and system/subsystem bonding. We can now specify how each component of a system S contributes (provides value) not only to the purpose of S but to other purposes present in the value chains S participates in.</p>
Pombinho, J.; Aveiro, David; Tribolet, J.
Towards Objective Business Modeling in Enterprise Engineering – Defining Function, Value and Purpose Proceedings
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 110, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-642-29902-5.
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title = {Towards Objective Business Modeling in Enterprise Engineering – Defining Function, Value and Purpose},
author = {J. Pombinho and David Aveiro and J. Tribolet},
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year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
journal = {Advances in Enterprise Engineering VI},
volume = {110},
pages = {93-107},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
abstract = {<p>Current Enterprise Engineering state of the art does not fully address concerns such as bootstrapping and reengineering a working organization from the business perspective. It is currently focused on ontology, the constructional vision, rather than the function. We argue that the function design deserves no less modeling effort, as the construction design draws upon it. To this aim, a change of approach is necessary. By combining knowledge from DEMO, Service Science and e3Value, this paper presents conceptual contributions towards modeling the contribution perspective of a system in an integrated way, namely by defining Function, Value and Purpose. These concepts are first defined in the context of a dual party relationship and then applied to chains of two or more elements. By coupling with an innovative application of the Generic System Development Process, an extension of existing Enterprise Engineering theory is proposed, in a way we believe will assist in improve its current state of the art and widen its application scope</p>},
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<p>Current Enterprise Engineering state of the art does not fully address concerns such as bootstrapping and reengineering a working organization from the business perspective. It is currently focused on ontology, the constructional vision, rather than the function. We argue that the function design deserves no less modeling effort, as the construction design draws upon it. To this aim, a change of approach is necessary. By combining knowledge from DEMO, Service Science and e3Value, this paper presents conceptual contributions towards modeling the contribution perspective of a system in an integrated way, namely by defining Function, Value and Purpose. These concepts are first defined in the context of a dual party relationship and then applied to chains of two or more elements. By coupling with an innovative application of the Generic System Development Process, an extension of existing Enterprise Engineering theory is proposed, in a way we believe will assist in improve its current state of the art and widen its application scope</p>