Conceptual modeling is widely adopted in industrial practices, e.g., process, software, and systems modeling. Providing adequate and usable modeling tools is essential for the efficient adoption of modeling. With the Graphical Language Server Protocol (GLSP), it is now possible to realize rich, advanced opportunities for visualizing and interacting with conceptual models.
Microservices Architectures (MSAs) have been widely adopted by industry in different domains to address various challenges, from the modernization of monolithic financial applications to large IoT systems. MSA is a compositional approach based on the arrangement of microservices, executing simple tasks and providing limited functionalities, which are put together to form a more complex system.
Metamodeling platforms are at the core of the development of modelling tools for domain-specific and general-purpose modelling languages. Desktop applications are nowadays accompanied by browser-based environments. Similarly to the heterogeneity of modelling languages and the purpose they support we see also a heterogeneity in metamodeling platforms and the modelling purposes they support (e.
Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is an established discipline in the information science field. With the digitalization, established enterprises are challenged to face fierce competition, especially from new competitors joining the market in vast amounts of time.
Conceptual models often evolve into large and monolithic artifacts. This is a threat to comprehensibility and maintainability as the size of the resulting artefacts exceeds the cognitive processing capabilities of human beings.
The construction of new metamodels is a complex and knowledge-intensive engineering activity. As of now, metamodel design is merely a creative and manual task with a lack of proper tooling support.
Modeling language specifications are of paramount importance for modelers, researchers, and tool vendors. However, these specifications use different techniques for specifying a metamodel. There is no common standard for specifying a metamodel, neither in industry nor in academia, and the usefulness and expressiveness of different specification techniques has never been empirically evaluated.
There is currently a large hype surrounding Web Modeling and the development of web-based modeling tools. In the context of this topic, several theses projects can be offered, ranging from the evaluation of different platforms enabling the development of web modeling tools, over the assessment of individual technologies used for the realization of such tools, up to the prototypical implementation and evaluation of a web modeling tool on a concrete platform.
There is currently a large hype surrounding Web IDEs and the language server protocol (LSP). LSP provides a very flexible and well-proven architecture for implementing textual editors. It allows to reuse editor implementations for different languages by decoupling editor implementations from language implementations in so-called language servers.
During the last two decades the biggest business transformation was that digitalisation has enabled new forms of collaboration and value-provision by transiting from individual enterprises to digital platform enterprises. Resources are harnessed by opening the platform enterprise boundaries and providing an innovation space for third-parties to create add-on offerings as well as through the exploitation of network effects.
in: “55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS´22)", issued by: HICSS ScholarSpace and AIS eLibrary; AIS, 2022, ISBN: 978-0-9981331-5-7, 6626 - 6635.
accepted for publication in: “Proceedings of the 41th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling”, issued by: Springer; Springer LNCS, Cham, 2022.
in: “Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 34th International Conference, CAiSE 2022, Leuven, Belgium, June 6-10, 2022, Proceedings”, issued by: Xavier Franch, Geert Poels, Frederik Gailly, Monique Snoeck; Springer, Switzerland, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-031-07472-1, 479 - 497.
Software and Systems Modeling, 20 (2021), 4; 25 pages.
in: “2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)", IEEE Xplore Digital Library, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-4488-0, 333 - 336.
in: “Proceedings of the Demonstration & Resources Track, Best BPM Dissertation Award, and Doctoral Consortium at BPM 2021 co-located with the 19th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2021, Rome, Italy, September 6-10, 2021”, CEUR-WS.org, 2021, 151 - 155.
in: “2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C) - Tools & Demonstrations Track”, issued by: ACM/IEEE; IEEE Xplore Digital Library, USA, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-2484-4, 610 - 614.
in: “2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C) - Educators Symposium Track”, issued by: ACM/IEEE; IEEE Xplore Digital Library, USA, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-2484-4, 702 - 711.
in: “Advances in Enterprise Engineering XIV”, D. Aveiro, D. Guizzardi, R. Pergl, H. Proper (ed.); Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, Switzerland, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-74195-2, 92 - 110.
in: “Proceedings of the Forum at Practice of Enterprise Modeling 2021 (PoEM-Forum 2021) (PoEM 2021)", CEUR-WS.org, 2021, (invited), 78 - 87.
Requirements Engineering, Requirements Eng (2021), 3; 27 pages.
in: “2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)", IEEE Xplore Digital Library, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-4488-0, 337 - 340.
in: “Joint Proceedings of the Semantics co-located events: Poster&Demo track and Workshop on Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling of Digital Twins (SemanticsP&Ds 2021), Amsterdam and Online, September 6-9, 2021”, I. Tiddi, M. Maleshkova, T. Pellegrini, V. de Boer (ed.); issued by: CEUR-WS; CEUR-WS.org, 2021, 1 - 14.
in: “MEDES´21: 13th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems”, ACM Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-4503-8314-1, 79 - 86.
in: “40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling”, A. Ghose, J. Horkoff, V. Silva Souza, J. Parsons, J. Evermann (ed.); issued by: Springer; Springer, LNCS, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-89021-6, 199 - 209.
in: “ICTERI´21: 17th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications”, CEUR-WS.org, 2021, 142 - 157.
in: “Proceedings of the 14th IFIP Working Conference, PoEM 2021, Riga, Latvia, November 24-26, 2021”, Springer International Publishing, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-91278-9, 48 - 63.
Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Cham, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-030-63478-0; 416 pages.
in: “ER Forum, Demo and Posters 2020”, J. Michael, V. Torres (ed.); issued by: RTWH Aachen; CEUR-WS.org, CEUR-WS.org, 2020, 45 - 58.
accepted for publication in Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (online-edition).