Next Generation Enterprise Modelling - The Role of Organizational Theory and Multi-Agent Systems

Balbir Barn, Tony Clark, Vinay Kulkarni

2014

Abstract

This position paper proposes that the current enterprise modeling approaches are overly reliant on the know how or tacit knowledge of enterprise architects for addressing organizational challenges such as business-IT alignment. Furthermore, current modeling languages only encourage linear thinking. By drawing upon existing research on (computational) organization theory and multi-agent systems, we propose implementation requirements for a next generation enterprise modeling language that supports agent based simulation.

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Barn B., Clark T. and Kulkarni V. (2014). Next Generation Enterprise Modelling - The Role of Organizational Theory and Multi-Agent Systems . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-036-9, pages 482-487. DOI: 10.5220/0005097404820487


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@conference{icsoft-ea14,
author={Balbir Barn and Tony Clark and Vinay Kulkarni},
title={Next Generation Enterprise Modelling - The Role of Organizational Theory and Multi-Agent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={482-487},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005097404820487},
isbn={978-989-758-036-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)
TI - Next Generation Enterprise Modelling - The Role of Organizational Theory and Multi-Agent Systems
SN - 978-989-758-036-9
AU - Barn B.
AU - Clark T.
AU - Kulkarni V.
PY - 2014
SP - 482
EP - 487
DO - 10.5220/0005097404820487