時        間：106/03/13(一) 19:00~19:30

地        點：管4069室

主辦單位：管理學院與管理學術研究中心

講        者：Prof. Dimitris Karagiannis (University of Vienna)

講        題：Conceptual Modelling within OMiLAB: an Agile  Engineering Approach

摘        要：

Conceptual modelling methods are increasingly important, both for the analysis of existing enterprise systems (i.e., evaluation of an As-Is situation) and for the setup of new systems (i.e., simulation or analysis of different design decisions). Various management approaches have been built on modelling methods or languages - popular examples are Business Process Management or various Enterprise Architecture frameworks. An adequately designed modelling method will allow its users to abstract away details that are irrelevant to their decision-making needs, while enabling a focussed analysis of relevant properties in order to support or validate actions and decisions. Diagrammatic notations can support communication and understanding among stakeholders, while formal foundations are necessary to support machine-interpretability and to automate model-based functionality (e.g., simulation, code generation).

Traditionally, modelling methods/languages for business (e.g., BPMN, Archimate) have pursued an ambition of standardization. However, we arrive at a point where modelling methods must be flexible enough to adapt to evolving modelling requirements. As modellers may require additional domain-specificity, or stakeholders may raise additional requirements for model-driven software, the Modelling Method Engineer is called to agilely incorporate such changes in a modelling method and its implementation (modelling tool). In support of this, the keynote will argue for the necessity of an Agile Modelling Method Engineering (AMME) paradigm and will present the steps that have been made in this direction within OMiLAB (Open Models Laboratory, www.omilab.org) - a research environment and collaboration space setup at University of Vienna. Both research results and educational resources, like the NEMO Summer School Series (http://nemo.omilab.org/2017/), that are available to the OMiLAB open community will be summarised.