@article{KARAGIANNIS2022103631,
title = {The OMiLAB Digital Innovation environment: Agile conceptual models to bridge business value with Digital and Physical Twins for Product-Service Systems development},
author = {Dimitris Karagiannis and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Wilfrid Utz},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166361522000264},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2022.103631},
issn = {0166-3615},
year  = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Computers in Industry},
volume = {138},
pages = {103631},
abstract = {OMiLAB is a community of practice which offers a digital ecosystem bringing together open technologies to investigate and apply conceptual modeling methods for varying purposes and domains. One of the core value propositions is a dedicated Digital Innovation environment comprising several toolkits and workspaces, designed to support Product-Service Systems (PSS) prototyping – a key ingredient for PSS lifecycle management. At the core of this environment is a notion of Agile Digital Twin – a conceptual representation that can be tailored with knowledge engineering means to bridge the semantic and functional gap between a business perspective (focusing on value creation) and an engineering perspective (focusing on cyber-physical proofs-of-concept). To facilitate this bridging, the hereby proposed environment orchestrates, across three abstraction layers, methods such as Design Thinking, Agile Modeling Method Engineering and Model-driven Engineering to turn Ideation into smart Product-Service Systems experiments, in a laboratory setting. The proposed environment was built following Design Science principles. It addresses the problem of historically-disconnected skills required for Digital Innovation projects and it provides a testbed for feasibility experimentation. For design-oriented, artifact building research, a higher Technology Readiness Level can thus be achieved (compared to the level that idea development methods typically attain).},
keywords = {Agile modeling method engineering, Digital twin, Domain-specific conceptual modeling, OMiLAB, Physical twin, Smart Product-service Systems},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Semantic Bridging between Conceptual Modeling Standards and Agile Software Projects Conceptualizations},
author = {Floruț, C.I. and Buchmann, R.A.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2022/managingdevops/7/},
year  = {2022},
date = {2022-00-00},
urldate = {2022-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ISD 2022},
address = {Cluj-Napoca, Romania},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Towards a Modeling Method for Managing Node. js Projects and Dependencies},
author = {Lixandru, B., Buchmann, R.A. and Ghiran, A.M.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2022/managingdevops/8/},
year  = {2022},
date = {2022-00-00},
urldate = {2022-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ISD 2022},
address = {Cluj-Napoca, Romania},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {User Experience Modeling Method for a Vision of Knowledge Graph-based Process Automation},
author = {Uifălean, Ș., Ghiran, A. M. and Buchmann, R. A.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2022/knowledge/12/},
year  = {2022},
date = {2022-00-00},
urldate = {2022-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ISD 2022},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = { A Suite of Modelling Tools for Developing Cyber-Physical Systems and Digital Twins Implementations},
author = {Chiș, A. and Ghiran, A. M.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2022/knowledge/1/},
year  = {2022},
date = {2022-00-00},
urldate = {2022-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ISD 2022},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Modeling Tool for Managing Requirements and Backlogs in Agile Software Development},
author = {Floruț, C. and Buchmann, R.A.},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3122/PT-paper-5.pdf},
year  = {2022},
date = {2022-00-00},
urldate = {2022-00-00},
booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of REFSQ 2022 Workshops, Doctoral Symposium, and Poster & Tools Track},
address = {Birmingham, UK},
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@inbook{nokey,
title = {BPMN Extension for Multi-Protocol Data Orchestration},
author = {Chiș, A. and Ghiran, A. M.},
url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-93547-4_28},
year  = {2022},
date = {2022-00-00},
urldate = {2022-00-00},
booktitle = {Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {A Technology-Specific Modeling Method for Data ETL Processes},
author = {Deme, A. and Buchmann, R. A.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2021/sig_sand/sig_sand/2/},
year  = {2021},
date = {2021-00-00},
urldate = {2021-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of AMCIS 2021},
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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-62412-5_23,
title = {OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers},
author = {Dimitris Karagiannis and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Xavier Boucher and Sergio Cavalieri and Adrian Florea and Dimitris Kiritsis and Moonkun Lee},
editor = {Luis M. Camarinha-Matos and Hamideh Afsarmanesh and Angel Ortiz},
url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-62412-5_23},
isbn = {978-3-030-62412-5},
year  = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0},
pages = {273–282},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed ``Digital Engineer'' skill profile (with a business-oriented facet labelled as ``Digital Innovator''). In the Internet of Things era, this profile implies the ability to perform both digital design and engineering activities, to semantically bridge multiple layers of abstraction and specificity – from business analysis down to cyber-physical engineering. In the paper's proposal, this integration is enabled by conceptual modelling methods and interoperable modelling tools, tailored to support the creation of Digital Twins for innovative digital business models. The architecture of the proposed environment is guided by a Design Research perspective – i.e., it is a treatment to an education ``design problem'' regarding the Digital Engineer skill profile in the IoT era. The proposed environment encompasses workspaces and toolkits are currently evaluated in ``innovation corners'' deployed across the OMiLAB ecosystem.},
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@article{nokey,
title = {A Modeling Method for Model-Driven API Management},
author = {Chiș, A.},
url = {https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/csimq/article/view/csimq.2020-25.01},
year  = {2020},
date = {2020-00-00},
urldate = {2020-00-00},
journal = {Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly},
number = {No 25 (2020)},
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@article{nokey,
title = {Agile Development of PHP Websites. A Model-Aware Approach},
author = {Gog, C.I.},
url = {https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/csimq/article/view/csimq.2020-25.02},
year  = {2020},
date = {2020-00-00},
urldate = {2020-00-00},
journal = {Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly},
number = {No 25 (2020)},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {A BPM Lifecycle Plug-in for Modeling Methods Agility},
author = {Utz, W., Buchmann, R.A., Bork, D. and Karagiannis, D.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2020/org_transformation_is/org_transformation_is/2/},
year  = {2020},
date = {2020-00-00},
urldate = {2020-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of AMCIS 2020},
journal = {Proceedings of AMCIS 2020},
address = {Salt Lake City, USA},
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pubstate = {published},
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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-31143-8_14,
title = {Model-Driven Context Configuration in Business Process Management Systems: An Approach Based on Knowledge Graphs},
author = {Mihai Cinpoeru and Ana-Maria Ghiran and Alisa Harkai and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Dimitris Karagiannis},
editor = {Małgorzata Pańkowska and Kurt Sandkuhl},
isbn = {978-3-030-31143-8},
year  = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Perspectives in Business Informatics Research},
pages = {189–203},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Business Process Management Systems (BPMSs) are inherently model-driven, relying on machine-readable process repositories that are typically standards-based. However, a requirement for semantic agility is emerging as knowledge-driven applications become less blueprint-oriented and more context-aware. The integration of process knowledge with contextual data can be subjected to this agility requirement – i.e., having the process modelling environment customised in terms of (expanding) its knowledge space and in terms of model-data interoperability. Such customisations may capture any of the enterprise perspectives proposed by the Zachman Framework (among which the How, Who and Where facets are in our particular focus) towards the benefit of establishing a hybrid knowledge-data fabric underlying flexible, context-driven BPMSs.},
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@inproceedings{8920624,
title = {A Metamodeling Approach to Support the Engineering of Modeling Method Requirements},
author = {Dimitris Karagiannis and Patrik Burzynski and Wilfrid Utz and Robert Andrei Buchmann},
doi = {10.1109/RE.2019.00030},
year  = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)},
pages = {199-210},
keywords = {Agile modeling method engineering, Metamodeling, Requirements modeling, Unified modeling language;Tools;Analytical models;Semantics;Taxonomy;Standards;Context modeling;Modeling method requirements},
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@article{nokey,
title = {Conceptual Modeling Education as a Design Problem},
author = {Buchmann, R.A., Ghiran, A.M., Döller V. and Karagiannis, D.},
url = {https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/csimq/article/view/csimq.2019-21.02},
year  = {2019},
date = {2019-00-00},
urldate = {2019-00-00},
journal = {Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly},
number = {No 21},
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@article{nokey,
title = {An Open Platform for Modeling Method Conceptualization - The OMiLAB Digital Ecosystem},
author = {Bork, D., Buchmann, R.A., Karagiannis, D., Lee, M., Miron E.T.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol44/iss1/32/},
year  = {2019},
date = {2019-00-00},
urldate = {2019-00-00},
journal = {Communications of the Association for Information Systems},
volume = {44},
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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-319-92898-2_17,
title = {The ``What'' Facet of the Zachman Framework – A Linked Data-Driven Interpretation},
author = {Alisa Harkai and Mihai Cinpoeru and Robert Andrei Buchmann},
editor = {Raimundas Matulevičius and Remco Dijkman},
url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-92898-2_17},
isbn = {978-3-319-92898-2},
year  = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops},
pages = {197–208},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {The recommended interpretation of the ``What'' facet in the Zachman Framework is that it serves as a data-centric viewpoint on the enterprise, capturing data requirements across several layers of abstraction – from high-level business concepts down to implemented data entities. In enterprise modelling, these have been traditionally approached through well-established practices and modelling techniques – i.e., Entity-Relationship models, UML class models and other types of popular data model types. In the current context of digital transformation and agile enterprise relying on distributed information systems, certain technological specifics are lost when employing traditional methods acting on a high level of abstraction. For example, the Linked Data paradigm advocates specific data distribution, publishing and retrieval techniques that would be useful if assimilated on a modelling level - in what could be characterised as technology-specific modelling methods (mirroring the field of domain-specific languages, but from a technological perspective). This paper proposes an agile modelling language that provides a diagrammatic and, at the same time, machine-readable integration of several of the Zachman Framework facets. In this language, the ``What'' facet covers concepts met in a Linked Enterprise Data environment – e.g., graph servers, graph databases, RESTful HTTP requests. These have been conceptualised in the proposed language and implemented in a way that allows the generation of a particular kind of code – process-driven orchestration of PHP-based SPARQL client requests.},
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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-319-77243-1_22,
title = {Streamlining Semantics from Requirements to Implementation Through Agile Mind Mapping Methods},
author = {Robert Andrei Buchmann and Ana-Maria Ghiran and Cristina-Claudia Osman and Dimitris Karagiannis},
editor = {Erik Kamsties and Jennifer Horkoff and Fabiano Dalpiaz},
url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-77243-1_22},
isbn = {978-3-319-77243-1},
year  = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality},
pages = {335–351},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {[Context and motivation] Semantics are the essential asset that must be managed during requirements elicitation, and further made available to the implementation phase. Consequently, it makes sense to investigate how knowledge representation techniques can support both human-oriented and machine-readable requirements modelling to facilitate the transfer of semantics between the two phases. Semantic technology such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and methodologies such as Agile Modelling Method Engineering (AMME) may converge towards new methods of requirements elicitation. [Question/problem] How can requirements semantics be captured in a fashion that is diagrammatic, agile and streamlined to support the implementation phase? [Principal ideas/results] We introduce the notion of Agile Mind Mapping Method as an artefact that repurposes agile modelling methods for mind mapping practices and is enriched with an RDF-based semantic interoperability mechanism for transferring diagrammatic requirements descriptions to implemented software artefacts. [Contribution] Semantic technology, agile metamodeling and mind mapping best practices are combined in an elicitation method based on agile modelling artefacts that can streamline semantics from mind map-based requirements to semantics-aware implementations.},
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@inproceedings{8406684,
title = {Towards a framework of techniques for enabling semantics-driven secondary notation in conceptual models},
author = {Ana-Maria Ghiran and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Dimitris Karagiannis},
doi = {10.1109/RCIS.2018.8406684},
year  = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {2018 12th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)},
pages = {1-6},
keywords = {Visualization;Adaptation models;Semantics;Resource description framework;Business;Tools;Analytical models;Conceptual Modelling;Business Process Modelling;Secondary notation;Agile Modelling Method Engineering},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Repurposing Zachman Framework Principles for "Enterprise Model"-Driven Engineering},
author = {Harkai, A., Cinpoeru, M. and Buchmann, R.A.},
url = {https://www.scitepress.org/papers/2018/67107/67107.pdf},
year  = {2018},
date = {2018-00-00},
urldate = {2018-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ICEIS 2018},
address = {Madeira, Portugal},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Design and Implementation of a Diagrammatic Tool for Creating RDF graphs},
author = {Chiș-Rațiu A. and Buchmann, R.A.},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2238/paper4.pdf},
year  = {2018},
date = {2018-00-00},
urldate = {2018-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of PrOse workshop at PoEM 2018},
address = {Vienna, Austria},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {A Proposal for Deploying Hybrid Knowledge Bases - the ADOxx-to-GraphDB Interoperability Case},
author = {Karagiannis, D. and Buchmann, R.A.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-51/ks/ks_creation/4/},
year  = {2018},
date = {2018-00-00},
urldate = {2018-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of HICSS 2018},
address = {Hawaii, USA},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Model-Aware Software Engineering},
author = {Buchmann, R.A., Cinpoeru, M., Harkai, A. and Karagiannis, D.},
url = {https://www.scitepress.org/papers/2018/66941/66941.pdf},
year  = {2018},
date = {2018-00-00},
urldate = {2018-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ENASE 2018},
address = {Madeira, Portugal},
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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_2,
title = {CE-SIB: A Modelling Method Plug-in for Managing Standards in Enterprise Architectures},
author = {Christoph Moser and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Wilfrid Utz and Dimitris Karagiannis},
editor = {Heinrich C. Mayr and Giancarlo Guizzardi and Hui Ma and Oscar Pastor},
url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_2},
isbn = {978-3-319-69904-2},
year  = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
urldate = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Conceptual Modeling},
pages = {21–35},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {In Enterprise Architecture (EA) Management, adoption of standards brings essential benefits pertaining to compatibility and repeatability but also raises governance challenges. EA frameworks recommend placing architecture artifacts under strict governance to control technological diversity towards reduced costs of operation or business-IT alignment; however, they do not provide methodological guidance on how to support decision-making for standards management. Business process management, model-driven software engineering or IT service management do address such challenges, but fall short in covering all relevant architectural layers. Driven by industry experience, this paper proposes a modelling method plug-in (``function block'') to support a model-based integration of practices for standards compliance management and their relevant model bases. It also aims for generality, as the proposal is pluggable through ``semantic docking points'' to arbitrary EA frameworks. A prototypical implementation in the form of a modelling tool is discussed as an expository instantiation, as well as basis for evaluation and learned lessons.},
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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-319-70241-4_22,
title = {Streamlining Structured Data Markup and Agile Modelling Methods},
author = {Ana-Maria Ghiran and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Cristina-Claudia Osman and Dimitris Karagiannis},
editor = {Geert Poels and Frederik Gailly and Estefania Serral Asensio and Monique Snoeck},
isbn = {978-3-319-70241-4},
year  = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {The Practice of Enterprise Modeling},
pages = {331–340},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Structured Data Markup allows Web developers to embed semantics in HTML pages, thus enabling clients (search engines, client apps etc.) to distil machine-readable resource descriptions from HTML code. This approach emerged from the Semantic Web paradigm as a powerful alternative to traditional Web scraping. Its enablers are dedicated HTML extensions (e.g., RDFa) and controlled vocabularies (e.g., Schema.org). Originating in a different context, Enterprise Modelling methods rely on diagrammatic means for describing and analysing an enterprise system in terms of key properties and conceptual abstractions. Hence, both the Semantic Web and Enterprise Modelling paradigms share a common interest in machine-processable semantics towards the goal of elevating semantics-awareness in information systems and decision support. Inspired by this overlapping, the paper proposes a mechanism for streamlining semantics between Structured Data Markup and enterprise modelling methods. Towards this goal, it employs the Resource Description Framework and the Agile Modelling Method Engineering Framework.},
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@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {How Can Diagramatic Conceptual Modelling Support Knowledge Management?},
author = {Karagiannis D., Buchmann RA., Walch M.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2017_rp/101/},
year  = {2017},
date = {2017-00-00},
urldate = {2017-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ECIS 2017},
address = {Guimarães, Portugal},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
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@article{nokey,
title = {A Semantic Approach to Deploying Product-Service Systems},
author = {Buchmann RA., Karagiannis D.},
url = {https://www.igi-global.com/article/a-semantic-approach-to-deploying-product-service-systems/197431},
year  = {2017},
date = {2017-00-00},
urldate = {2017-00-00},
journal = {International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design},
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@article{nokey,
title = {Domain-specific Diagrammatic Modelling - a Source of Machine-readable Semantics for the Internet of Things},
author = {Buchmann, R.A., Karagiannis, D.},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10586-016-0695-1},
year  = {2017},
date = {2017-00-00},
urldate = {2017-00-00},
journal = {Cloud Computing},
volume = {20(1)},
pages = {895-908},
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@inproceedings{7828528,
title = {Using Conceptual Modeling to Support Innovation Challenges in Smart Cities},
author = {Dominik Bork and Robert Buchmann and Igor Hawryszkiewycz and Dimitris Karagiannis and Nikolaos Tantouris and Michael Walch},
doi = {10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS.2016.0187},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
urldate = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 14th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS)},
pages = {1317-1324},
keywords = {Smart cities;Unified modeling language;Education;Planning;Technological innovation;Complexity theory;Smart City;Conceptual Modeling;Model Query;Model Simulation},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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@inproceedings{7828528b,
title = {Using Conceptual Modeling to Support Innovation Challenges in Smart Cities},
author = {Dominik Bork and Robert Buchmann and Igor Hawryszkiewycz and Dimitris Karagiannis and Nikolaos Tantouris and Michael Walch},
doi = {10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS.2016.0187},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 14th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS)},
pages = {1317-1324},
keywords = {Smart cities;Unified modeling language;Education;Planning;Technological innovation;Complexity theory;Smart City;Conceptual Modeling;Model Query;Model Simulation},
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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-981-10-0557-2_121,
title = {Enterprise Modelling for the Internet of Things: The ComVantage Method},
author = {Robert Andrei Buchmann and Dimitris Karagiannis},
editor = {Kuinam J. Kim and Nikolai Joukov},
isbn = {978-981-10-0557-2},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Information Science and Applications (ICISA) 2016},
pages = {1283–1293},
publisher = {Springer Singapore},
address = {Singapore},
abstract = {The paper provides design insights and an illustrative running example on how the ComVantage domain-specific enterprise modelling method supports capability matching in mobile maintenance scenarios, within an ``Internet of Things'' (IoT) environment. A key benefit of the modelling method (and its proof-of-concept implementation) is the ability of exporting diagrammatic conceptual models with domain-specific semantics to a Linked Data environment, where model elements can be linked to available IoT resources and their ``Resource Description Framework'' (RDF)-based descriptions (e.g., machines, sensors, maintenance actors and processes). Consequently, exported models serve as back-end information for semantically richer queries, thus enabling run-time apps to support timely maintenance interventions. The modelling method and its proof-of-concept prototype have been developed by the authors in a European research project, therefore background on the project will also be provided to facilitate understanding.},
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@inbook{Karagiannis2016,
title = {Fundamental Conceptual Modeling Languages in OMiLAB},
author = {Dimitris Karagiannis and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Patrik Burzynski and Ulrich Reimer and Michael Walch},
editor = {Dimitris Karagiannis and Heinrich C. Mayr and John Mylopoulos},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_1},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_1},
isbn = {978-3-319-39417-6},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools},
pages = {3–30},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Regardless of the application domain, both the analysis of existing systems and the creation of new systems benefit extensively from having the system modeled from a conceptual point of view in order to capture its behavioral, structural or semantic characteristics, while abstracting away irrelevant details. Depending on which relevant details are assimilated in the modeling language, modeling tools may support different degrees of domain-specificity. The boundaries of what domain-specific means are as ambiguous as the definition of a domain—it may be a business sector, a paradigm, or a narrow application area. However, some patterns and invariants are recurring across domains and this has led to the emergence of commonly used modeling languages that incorporate such fundamental concepts. This chapter focuses on the metamodeling approach for the hybridization of BPMN, ER, EPC, UML and Petri Nets within a single modeling method identified as FCML, with a proof of concept named Bee-Up implemented in OMiLAB.},
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@article{KARAGIANNIS2016174,
title = {Linked Open Models: Extending Linked Open Data with conceptual model information},
author = {Dimitris Karagiannis and Robert Andrei Buchmann},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306437915001830},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2015.10.001},
issn = {0306-4379},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
journal = {Information Systems},
volume = {56},
pages = {174-197},
abstract = {As the uptake of the Semantic Web vision has been relatively slow, a strategy based on pragmatic steps is being deployed in order to setup enablers and to stimulate acceptance. "Linked Open Data" refers to one of these early steps, benefiting from an available technological space (RDF, HTTP). The paper proposes "Linked Open Models" as a possible additional step, whose aim is to enable users to externalize knowledge in the form of diagrammatic models – a type of content that is human-readable, as well as linkable in the way promoted by the Linked Data paradigm. Consequently, diagrams become user-generated content that semantically enriches Linked Data, thus allowing richer constraints or connections in queries. The vision emerged from the context and use cases provided by the ComVantage FP7 research project, where linking benefits for conceptual diagrammatic models have been investigated. However the paper also discusses the vision’s degree of generality, beyond the scope of the exemplary project use cases. Feasibility was demonstrated with a vocabulary and a prototype mechanism for exposing the models created with a hybrid, domain-specific modeling method in a Linked Data-driven collaboration environment.},
keywords = {Conceptual modeling, Linked Open Data, Linked Open Models, Metamodeling, Model query},
pubstate = {published},
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}
@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Managing Consistency in Multit-view Enterprise Models - an Approach based on Semantic Queries},
author = {Karagiannis, D., Buchmann, R.A., Bork, D.},
url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2016_rp/53/},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-00-00},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ECIS 2016},
address = {Istanbul, Turkey},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
@bachelorthesis{nokey,
title = {Enriching Linked Data with Semantics from Domain-Specific Diagrammatic Models},
author = {Buchmann, R.A. and Karagiannis, D.},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-016-0445-1},
year  = {2016},
date = {2016-00-00},
journal = {Business Information Systems Engineering},
volume = {58},
pages = {341–353},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {bachelorthesis}
}
@inproceedings{7128889,
title = {A domain-specific language for modeling method definition: From requirements to grammar},
author = {Niksa Visic and Hans-Georg Fill and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Dimitris Karagiannis},
doi = {10.1109/RCIS.2015.7128889},
year  = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)},
pages = {286-297},
keywords = {Unified modeling language;Analytical models;DSL;Metamodeling;Semantics;Computational modeling;Domain specific languages;domain-specific language;modeling method;meta-modeling;modeling tool},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-319-25159-2_16,
title = {Preserving Multi-view Consistency in Diagrammatic Knowledge Representation},
author = {Dominik Bork and Robert Buchmann and Dimitris Karagiannis},
editor = {Songmao Zhang and Martin Wirsing and Zili Zhang},
isbn = {978-3-319-25159-2},
year  = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management},
pages = {177–182},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Multi-view conceptual modeling provides means for representing, with diagrammatic means, the knowledge describing a ``system under study'' whose complexity cannot be captured in a single comprehensible representation. Typical examples are available in the field of enterprise modeling, where models are inherently layered or partitioned, a feature that must be enabled at meta-modeling level by means of abstraction and decomposition. Multi-view modeling must provide means for coping with the complexity of enterprise knowledge representations through consistency preservation techniques across multiple, interrelated views. The paper at hand formulates the conceptual functions fulfilled by multi-view modeling and provides a demonstrative implementation in the context of the Semantic Object Model enterprise modeling method.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
@article{BUCHMANN2015150,
title = {Pattern-based Transformation of Diagrammatic Conceptual Models for Semantic Enrichment in the Web of Data},
author = {Robert Andrei Buchmann and Dimitris Karagiannis},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915022413},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.114},
issn = {1877-0509},
year  = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
journal = {Procedia Computer Science},
volume = {60},
pages = {150-159},
abstract = {The goal of this paper is to bridge the paradigms of Linked Data and Conceptual Modeling, which have been developed from quite distinct concerns, although certain opportunities may stimulate the evolution of the Web towards a new type of knowledge space driven by diagrammatic models. To this end, the work at hand investigates structural patterns in a multitude of modeling languages accumulated over time within the Open Model Initiative Laboratory and defines for each pattern transformation rules that produce graph-based model serializations, thus enabling the processing of diagrammatic models using the Web of Data tech-nological space and practices.},
note = {Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems 19th Annual Conference, KES-2015, Singapore, September 2015 Proceedings},
keywords = {Conceptual modeling, Graph databases, Linked Data, Web of Data},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-319-25897-3_23,
title = {Agile Modelling Method Engineering: Lessons Learned in the ComVantage Research Project},
author = {Robert Andrei Buchmann and Dimitris Karagiannis},
editor = {Jolita Ralyté and Sergio España and Óscar Pastor},
isbn = {978-3-319-25897-3},
year  = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {The Practice of Enterprise Modeling},
pages = {356–373},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {The paper reports on experiences accumulated during a EU research project where challenges pertaining to requirements-driven metamodelling agility have been analysed. Traditionally, modelling languages are perceived as stable artefacts – that is, if they address a sufficiently large community with fixed modelling requirements on a fixed layer of abstraction. However, the enterprise modelling community must also consider the case where evolving requirements emerge in a narrow domain, or even in a single enterprise, therefore reusability across domains will be sacrificed to the benefit of on-demand adaptation, specialization or integration. Under such conditions, an agile metamodelling approach was applied in the ComVantage project and this, in turn, raised specific requirements for conceptual and technological enablers, allowing us to derive conclusions that are generalized here beyond the project scope. The paper's concluding SWOT analysis highlights the need to stimulate the emergence of an agile metamodelling paradigm based on community-driven enablers.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
@article{nokey,
title = {Modelling mobile app requirements for semantic traceability},
author = {Buchmann, R.A. and Karagiannis, D.},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00766-015-0235-1},
year  = {2015},
date = {2015-00-00},
journal = {Requirements Engineering},
volume = {22},
pages = {41–75},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}