POEM - The Practice of Enterprise modelling

Published on 15/11/2018

On 31 October – 2 November 2018, as part of its activities in IT for Innovative Services (ITIS), the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) participated in the 11th IFIP WG 8.1. working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (POEM 2018) held in Vienna (AT).

POEM 2018 in Vienna + 2019 in Luxembourg

Director of ITIS Prof. Dr Eric Dubois and Prof. Dr Erik Proper were LIST’s representatives at POEM 2018. Dr Dubois was invited to the conference as a keynote speaker, where he presented recent results associated with the Institute’s Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) challenges in Regulatory Systems. His presentation was entitled “Towards a Megamodel Driven Approach for Regulatory Information Systems”. Dr Proper presented a paper about “Enterprise Modelling in the Age of Digital Transformation” and facilitated a workshop “Model Derivation” on 1 November.

During the conference, it has been announced that Luxembourg will host POEM 2019 Conference. LIST will organize the event and Dr Proper introduced Luxembourg where POEM audience will meet next year, 27-29 November 2019. The conference website dedicated to POEM 2019 will be online soon. In the meantime, all information is available on LIST’s event page

Enterprise Modelling and LIST

The digital transformation forces enterprises to change. In addition, the notion of economic exchange, core to the economy, has shifted from following a goods-dominant logic to a service-dominant logic, putting the focus on continuous value co-creation between providers and consumers. These trends drive enterprises to transform continuously. During enterprise transformations, coordination among the stakeholders involved is key. Shared understanding, agreement, and commitment, is needed on topics such as: the overall strategy of the enterprise, the current affairs of the enterprise and its context, as well as the ideal future affairs. Models, and ultimately enterprise modelling languages and frameworks, are generally seen as an effective way to enable such (informed) coordination. To this end, different languages and frameworks have been developed.

Active in trusted service systems and more precisely in Enterprise Modelling (EM), one of LIST’s objective in this field is to support business service systems with EM. A team of PhD candidates and research fellow work together on innovative frameworks and models, taking up the challenge of service quality in business service systems. 

Today, business organizations are also more and more facing compliance issues coming from international and national regulatory bodies, from standardisation bodies as well as from recognised professional and/or sectorial associations. In a world of multi-regulations, LIST’s researchers focus on a standardisation of the reporting that can be applied to the regulatory information systems shared by the different parties. LIST researchers’ proposal is to build these systems on top of conceptual informal models derived from the interpretation of the different norms. To this end, they are investigating some technological solution based on the concept of megamodel which aims at supporting the management of heterogeneous set of models.

For any further information on this topic, contact Erik Proper or Eric Dubois via email. 
 

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