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Enterprise Architecture: A Formalism for Modeling Organizational Structures in Information Systems

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In this paper we give an overview on our approach to the field of organizational modeling that is mainly driven from the viewpoint of organization theory. This approach was proposed within the scope of the development of a workflow management system together with a big German energy provider and a case study with a major German insurance company. The examples used in the article are motivated by the insurance company domain.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Microsoft’s Active Directory could be interpreted as an incarnation of such a server.

  2. 2.

    The formal language is described in [LSR13a].

  3. 3.

    We are looking for all clerks working in the claims department that have been working for the company for more than ten years.

  4. 4.

    We are using fantasy names.

  5. 5.

    A complete overview can be found in [Sch98].

  6. 6.

    The operator \(\rhd \) is defined as \(((\varGamma \subset A \times B) \rhd (C \subset B)) := \{(x,y) \in \varGamma \, \vert \, y \in C \}\).

  7. 7.

    Please take a look at the relation \({\varGamma }^{FA}_{s}\) and its according constraints.

  8. 8.

    It shows the example model (cf. Fig. 3). The type level is hidden.

  9. 9.

    The relation-types to be shown can be selected.

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  1. Institute for Information Systems at Hof University, Alfons-Goppel-Platz 1, 95028, Hof, Germany

    Alexander Lawall, Thomas Schaller & Dominik Reichelt

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Lawall, A., Schaller, T., Reichelt, D. (2014). Enterprise Architecture: A Formalism for Modeling Organizational Structures in Information Systems. In: Barjis, J., Pergl, R. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 191. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44860-1_5

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