Professor Ulrich Frank

University of Duisburg-Essen,Germany

http://www.wi-inf.uni-due.de/FGFrank

Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modelling and Future Enterprise Systems

The realization of efficient business information systems requires the joint analysis and design of the software system and the corresponding action system. The complexity of both, software system and action system, recommends developing appropriate abstractions. Co-designing information system and action system requires involving people with different professional backgrounds and different agendas. Enterprise models address this need by integrating models of software systems with models of surrounding action systems. In his talk, Ulrich Frank will elucidate that in times of the digital transformation enterprise models play a crucial role for developing and implementing competitive business models. To illustrate this claim he will present the conceptual foundation and languages of Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modelling (MEMO), a method for enterprise modelling which has been developed in his group over the last twenty years. In addition, he will outline his current research on multilevel language architectures that enable a common representation of models and code. Thus, they provide the foundation of a new kind of self-referential enterprise systems that integrate enterprise software systems not only with models of themselves, but also with models of the context they operate in.

Ulrich Frank holds the chair of Information Systems and Enterprise Modelling at the Institute of Computer Science and Business Information Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His main research topic is enterprise modelling, i.e. the development and evaluation of modelling languages, methods and corresponding tools. In recent years, he focused especially on multilevel DSML and corresponding tools. Further areas of research include method engineering, models at run time, methods for IT management and research methods.

Ulrich Frank is on the editorial board of the journals “Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures”, “Business & Information Systems Engineering”, “Software and Systems Modeling”, “Information Systems and E-Business Management”, and the “Journal of Information System Modeling and Design”. He has been actively involved in numerous conferences and various major research projects. He had assignments as visiting researcher/professor in various countries and is the founding director of the international student exchange network IS:link. He serves as a review board member of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German National Science Foundation).

Professor Schahram Dustdar

TU Wien, Austria

http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/staff/sd/

Towards Cyber-Physical-Social Systems - Towards a New Paradigm for

elastic distributed systems.

Emerging elastic systems are made of compositions of complex building blocks made of People, Processes, and Things. They span whole business processes, sometimes even go across organizations. They capture, manage, and adapt to the needs of all involved actors. However, elasticity brings challenges in the design and management of software, the involved human organizations, and business processes. In this talk I will address today's challenges in combining People, Processes, and Things to build complex elastic systems.

Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science and head of the Distributed Systems Group at the TU Wien, Austria. From 2004-2010 he was  Honorary Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Computing  Science at the University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands. He is an  Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, ACM  Transactions on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and  on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). Dustdar is recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist award (2009), the IBM Faculty Award (2012), a member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, and an IEEE Fellow (2016).