Towards Devising an Architectural Framework for Enterprise Operating Systems

Sérgio Guerreiro, Steven van Kervel, Eduard Babkin

2013

Abstract

One often observes that despite the efforts involved on information systems development, many times the achieved solutions do not comply well with the needs of the organization and lack in change agility to face new emerging requirements. This paper conceptualizes about an architectural framework specifically designed for explaining and representing the working environment of enterprise operating systems (EOS) and non-EOS information systems (IS) that depend on it. With these concerns in mind, the goal of EOS is to capture and control all phenomena that occur in an organization and then to provide all the required data for all IS for that organization. Using a computer engineering metaphor, this paper defines the theoretical foundations, and the methodology to design and implement an operating system for organizations. To achieve this, EOS is a model-driven dynamically. The models are based on domain ontology with C4-ness qualities and expressed in ontological language. It will be shown that the theory of enterprise ontology and the DEMO methodology provide a high degree of ontological appropriateness for this domain. This paper, outline a framework with its foundations, concepts, principles and stratification of IS, which is a radical new approach, useful to discussion this solution among the practitioners. A methodology to apply this architectural framework is discussed using a professional production case management.

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Guerreiro S., van Kervel S. and Babkin E. (2013). Towards Devising an Architectural Framework for Enterprise Operating Systems . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-68-6, pages 578-585. DOI: 10.5220/0004597805780585


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@conference{icsoft-pt13,
author={Sérgio Guerreiro and Steven van Kervel and Eduard Babkin},
title={Towards Devising an Architectural Framework for Enterprise Operating Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={578-585},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004597805780585},
isbn={978-989-8565-68-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013)
TI - Towards Devising an Architectural Framework for Enterprise Operating Systems
SN - 978-989-8565-68-6
AU - Guerreiro S.
AU - van Kervel S.
AU - Babkin E.
PY - 2013
SP - 578
EP - 585
DO - 10.5220/0004597805780585