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Can Organisational Theory and Multi-agent Systems Influence Next Generation Enterprise Modelling?

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This paper proposes that the current enterprise modelling approaches are overly reliant on the know how or tacit knowledge of enterprise architects for addressing organisational challenges such as business-IT alignment. Furthermore, current modelling languages only encourage linear thinking. By drawing upon existing research on (computational) organisation theory and multi-agent systems, we propose implementation requirements for a next generation enterprise modelling language that supports agent based simulation. The language is motivated by a detailed case study that illustrates the benefit of using simulation style languages.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, London, U.K

    Balbir S. Barn & Tony Clark

  2. TRDDC, Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India

    Vinay Kulkarni

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  1. Medical Informatis, Statistics, Document, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  2. Engenharia Informática Dept, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Jorge Cardoso

  3. INSTICC and IPS, Setúbal, Portugal

    José Cordeiro

  4. Dépt. Informatique, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Therese Libourel

  5. Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland

    Leszek A. Maciaszek

  6. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, Overijssel, The Netherlands

    Marten van Sinderen

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Barn, B.S., Clark, T., Kulkarni, V. (2015). Can Organisational Theory and Multi-agent Systems Influence Next Generation Enterprise Modelling?. In: Holzinger, A., Cardoso, J., Cordeiro, J., Libourel, T., Maciaszek, L., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 555. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25579-8_12

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