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According to the need of nuclear fuel calculation software development, a business process model is established in this paper, based on the domain modeling theory and goal modeling technology. The model simplifies the behavior of business subjects and objects, and focus on the calculation process and model. This paper designs a tool to build this business model. The tool separates the calculating process and model, adapts to the change of business model and improves the efficiency of business modeling on the nuclear fuel calculation domain. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Object-Oriented Modeling is a modeling paradigm mainly used in computer programming that assists the programmer to address the complexity of a problem domain by considering the problem and reduce the effect on model caused by such problem and make designs more robust, more maintainable, and more reusable. It is a design strategy where system designers think in terms of 'things' instead of operations or functions. Object-Oriented software projects are becoming more popular than structured or functional technology based projects. While Object-Oriented modeling are already arriving in the marketplace but their formal foundations are still under development. Object Technology offers support to deliver products to market more quickly and to provide high quality with lower maintenance costs. Quality Assurance is an important field of software engineering and there is need for good Object-Oriented metrics and models for both process and product. The quality of object-oriented design has a decisive impact on the quality of a software product, but due to the diversity and complexity of design properties like coupling, encapsulation etc their assessment and correlation with external quality attributes like maintenance, portability etc is hard. To address these issues, we will use the innovative solution (TRIZ) to enhance quality with available Object-oriented metrics and affecting factors. TRIZ is a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool that is abbreviation of Russian word Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch which typically rendered as the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. The objective of TRIZ is development of an algorithmic approach to the invention of new systems, and the refinement of existing ones. In this paper we will apply TRIZ to Object-oriented Models to enhance the quality of Object-oriented design. This paper describes a method based on TRIZ principles and tools that can be easily applied to maintain the quality of Object-Oriented based models. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The rapid evolution of technologies and interaction devices has enabled the emergence of interactive systems merging real and virtual worlds. These systems are characterized by new interaction forms. They involve new constraints that must be considered in the development process. This paper presents a set of elements and concepts to design augmented reality systems. The aim is to integrate human-computer interaction practices in the software engineering domain. Our works are focused on the initial phase of development, into which we have introduced a new concept: interactional space. The aim is to take into account the specificity of augmented reality in the information system design. Thus, new relations are established between business and interactional spaces. Models and approaches are developed to highlight the interaction objects in the development process. A case study is presented in order to validate our contributions. We develop an interactive tabletop intended to manage digital documents for maintenance assistance in industrial context. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the gradually expand of the software applications and increasing complexity of the software development, in order to reduce development costs, making full use of the existing resources to improve software reuse is imperative to solve the software crisis. Domain engineering provides a strong support for software reuse, domain analysis method also gradually shifts from structured analysis to object-oriented analysis which has greater granularity. Because of the good usability, flexibility and growth, service has been widespread concerned. This paper will combine service and Feature-Oriented Domain Analysis, elaborating service-oriented domain analysis and modeling process, as well as the various phases of the domain models, which facilitate the access to the business component and improve software reuse degrees. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Service composition and substitution are major research fields in Service Oriented Computing (SOC). Behavioral compatibility is very important. This paper proposes a context-dependent behavioral substitutability analysis approach. Web service processes are modeled by Petri nets. By analyzing the partial orders of transitions for the substituted service, several algorithms are given for temporal constraints generation. And this paper proves that if new services satisfy the temporal constraints, the new composite service must be sound and deadlock-free. To explain the algorithms clearly, a detailed example is shown. The results and algorithms can be used to improve the existing methods of service substitution verification. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In today's highly competitive situation, business model innovation is critical for the survival and development of an enterprise. Domestic and foreign scholars who use several of methods in the research on business model innovation have achieved great accomplishments, but overall they are still relatively fragmented. Aiming to avoid detours in innovation process and increase innovation efficiency, based on the respective advantages of Case-Based Reasoning(CBR) and Theory of inventive problem solving(TRIZ) for business model innovation, a business model innovation model is proposed. Finally, the paper used a case to verify the effectiveness of the model. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Modeling Business Processes has become a challenging issue of todays' Knowledge Management. As such it is a core activity of Knowledge Engineering. There are two principal approaches to modeling such processes: Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) and Business Rules (BR). Both of them are to certain degree complementary. In this paper, we investigate how to build a logical model of BPMN using logic programming and rules. The main focus in on logical reconstruction of BPMN model in Prolog and defining some formal requirements on model correctness enabling formal verification of such models. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper presents several experiences regarding Operations Research (OR) and Simulation education activities in three master programs, each of them offered at a different university. The paper discusses the importance of teaching these contents in most managerial and engineering masters. After a brief overview of existing related work, the paper provides some recommendations-based on our own teaching experiences-that instructors should keep in mind when designing OR/Simulation courses, either in traditional face-to-face as well as in pure online learning models. The case studies exposed here include students from business management, computer science, and aeronautical management degrees, respectively. For each type of student, different OR/Simulation tools are employed in the courses, ranging from easy-to-use optimization and simulation software to simulation-based algorithms developed from scratch using a programming language. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For any IT transformation with significant investment, economic analysis is essential for justifying the risks and expenditures. Much cost modeling has been done for various types of IT transformations, each looks into the unique aspects of the concerned domains. This paper takes a different direction and proposes a general methodology named PANROI for quickly constructing ROI/TCO models to be used in the field. A declarative language, Excedo, is proposed for expressing the model logic and building the user interface. We present a case study on building an ROI model for cloud computing using the methodology and Excedo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Management simulations are designed to provide experiential learning bridging the gap between theory and practice. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors that promote the effectiveness of computer based business simulations in management education. The study was conducted in a premier B-School based in Hyderabad. The knowledge component of the course is often delivered to the learners as participative classroom based lectures and business simulations for courses in operations research, strategy and marketing are offered to provide an effective immersive learning experience. This paper explores the effectiveness of simulations in management education in terms of: Learning assimilated from the simulation? Team dynamics observed? Ease of use of simulation? Realism in simulation. The paper reports findings of a survey administered to the students of an executive program offered for experienced working professionals at the B-School'sHyderabad campus in India. The paper also puts forth enhancement measures that can be taken up to make the learning process more effective. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The analysis of modern business processes implemented as orchestration of software services demands for new approaches that explicitly take into account the inherent complexity and distribution characteristics of such processes. In this respect, Distributed Simulation (DS) offers a viable tool to cope with such a demand, due to the aggregation, scalability, representativeness and load balancing properties that it allows to achieve. However, the use of DS is mostly limited by the specialized technical know-how and the extra-development that DS requires with respect to approaches based on conventional local simulation. This paper proposes a model-driven method that enables the DS-based analysis of business processes by introducing the automated transformation of business process models into analysis models that are specified as Extended Queueing Network (EQN) models and executed as distributed simulations. The paper also presents an example application to a business process for an e-commerce scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As one of the most important achievements during the last decade in product lifecycle management (PLM), contextual object definition became main integrating factor in product models. In this paper, the authors introduce their recent results in contextual product modeling. Four aspects of contextual product object definition are discussed and recent related results are introduced. The aspects are contextual nature of product information, organizing contextual definitions, embedding knowledge for contexts in product model, and new product model entities collaborating with usual PLM model entities. In this scenario, the results by the authors of this paper are introduced in close connection with their earlier published results. The purpose of the work was joining to efforts for higher intelligence in product modeling methodology considering current trends, recent research activities, and leading industrial product modeling technology. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper presents a quantitative approach to business process analysis using metrics from (social) network analysis. It is claimed that using this approach not only allows quantification of business process properties, but also provides insights on business process behavior that is not obvious from business process descriptions or models. The goal is to show that process characteristics can be explored and analyzed using network theory and methods of statistical analysis. The focus of this work is put on process type definition. To validate the approach business process model networks are evaluated against artificial networks with selected random graph distributions. The identified metrics are evaluated using a sample of real-life business processes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There has been substantial work exploring strategies, both theoretical and empirical, for selling and buying in online auctions. However, much of this work has considered single auctions in isolation, partially because it is hard to examine multiple simultaneous auctions using traditional math modeling approaches. In reality, many auctions occur simultaneously, so there is competition not just among bidders, but also among auctions. In this paper, we use simulation to explore bidders' switching behavior between auctions for similar products. Using an empirical dataset, we first examine the distribution of switching and associated bidding behavior in real auctions. We use this data to create an agent-based model that reproduces the price process observed in the empirical data. Using this model we then explore the effects of: (1) different switching distributions, (2) the switching rule, i.e., which auction to switch to, and (3) different auction start rates. In the end, we show that in order to maximize the final price and to minimize the price disparity, auction platforms should encourage users to switch to a low-price auction that is ending soon. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While service-oriented paradigm plays a more and more extensive role in software and information systems development and service-driven architectures are increasingly adopted by public and private organizations, the Requirements Engineering (RE) discipline still fails to provide approaches and techniques dedicated for this type of development. In this paper we aim to identify viewpoints and issues particular to the RE domain adapted to the service-oriented engineering context. Based on this analysis, we introduce a framework to support RE for service engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Model-Driven Architecture approach defines system functionality using a platform-independent model(PIM).The PIM is translated to one or more platform-specific models (PSMs) that computers can run. The analysis and verification to these models is necessary at the first stage of software development process. Due to lack of formal semantics, UML model describing software character need to be translated into formal model for analysis and verification. In this paper, we propose improved translation rules for UML2 sequence diagram and activity diagram, which can translate the dynamic model into Petri net precisely and efficiently. According to the translation rules, a translation tool is implemented. Using the translation tool we translate a series of representative UML models to Petri net models efficiently. It shows that the translation rules are rational and the translation tool is efficient. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a result of new business demands and technological advances processes are becoming increasingly complex and heterogeneous. This calls for business processes that must be managed in an autonomic manner in response to changes in its environmental context. However, a key challenge is to provide variability, understandability and scalability in modeling increasingly complex business processes. In our work we rely on explicit representation of environment variability through context-awareness and quality attributes in order to properly represent autonomic features in Business Process Models. We outline a process that helps to define the modularity of the Business Process Models, indicating where the system needs to be instrumented. A meta-model with the concepts used is presented. This novel approach provides four well-defined levels of abstraction: Communicational Level, Technological Level, Operational Level and Service Level. A real example is used to illustrate our proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Abstraction technology is used to reduce the information or graphical decorations of representation of business process. This paper applies abstraction slider to generating abstraction of process module, and some related structural and behavioral features of abstraction are also discussed in the text. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Based on the current development of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) in Enterprise Information System (EIS), the paper proposes a DMDA, a new development architecture to improve EIS development speed and quality. The basic idea of the DMDA is to take advantage of formal description, decomposition and re-use on EIS development process to let computer understand development demands of developers and then consequently generate some business models having nothing to do with specific technical realization, combine with specific technical basic platform to finally generate the EIS meeting actual demands based on data model. The practice proves the architecture is capable of simplifying EIS development difficulty, expediting application and development speed, improve development quality and achieve the rapid development purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One of the key issues in a typical marine logistics industry dealing with container operations is to maximize profitability subject to pre-specified service level compliance(s) under uncertain and complex business environment. The problem becomes more complex in presence of heterogeneous customers, varied degree of demand priority, supply restrictions, and other allied operational constraints. In this paper, a typical container business operation has been considered where the service provider deals with different types of customers. The problem has been modeled with discrete-event simulation techniques. A simulation optimization technique has been deployed to analyze several opportunities to improve overall system performance in terms of increased profit, demand fulfillment rate, and deriving other contractual parameter(s) under varied scenarios. Trade-offs between different KPIs including fleet size, unmet demand, service level, and utilization have been analyzed and a sensitivity analysis has been provided to bring in several managerial insights. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Simulation is considered a key component for business process management suites. Within business process management, simulation can be readily used for both process design, and ongoing improvement. Despite the predictive capabilities of simulation, the lack of wide scale adoption within business process management compared with what might be expected suggests that more can be done to better integrate, and use, simulation with business process management suites. While mature standards exist for the definitions of the business processes, there is a lack of standards for defining business process simulation para-meters. This paper describes the current challenges when using simulation for business process management, and shows how a standard for defining business process simulation scenarios would help organizations implementing business process management suites leverage the prescriptive power of simulation. The components of such a standard and how this standard might be extended into a complete process analytics framework will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In order to address the agile adjustment in functional activities in business process reengineering, a variable business process model is proposed to achieve a flexible and variable business process mode. Against the variability characteristics of the business process, variability modeling method is applied to messages which transfer between the functional activities. The logical calculation in messages is used to control flow structure by defining different message format and structure. The replacement relationships along with constraint relationships between activities and flow structures are defined to achieve the unity of process variability and stability. Process variability is achieved based on the different types of message content, with business process logic and implementation logic separated. A case applied to tourism services serves as a good practice example of the convenient support for business process adjustment of this model. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On MDA-based cloud computing platform of software development, aiming at the problems of PIM to PSM reliability transformation, discuss and research the software development modeling process on MDA-based cloud computing environment, PIM and PSM model storage and interface form, and the PIM to PSM reliability transformation mechanism, the model of modeling software development on MDA-based cloud computing environment were presented, and the key technology search for the next step to study are mentioned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]