Most people we know don't read a book's Preface. So, we'll keep it brief. Why read this
book? Why did we write it? The answer to both these questions is straightforward. We, the …

Modeling methods have been proven to provide beneficial instrumental support for different
modeling tasks during information system analysis and design. However, methods are a …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology area creating high expectations in many enterprises
when it comes to potential benefits for improving business, automating tasks or facilitating …

Two main candidates for the atomic element to be used in Situational Method Engineering
(SME) have been proposed: the “method fragment” and the “method chunk.” These are …

Interoperability is a key property of enterprise applications, which is hard to achieve due to
the large number of interoperating components and semantic heterogeneity. The inherent …

The rising of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly
increase the industrial productivities and customer convenience. However, the widely …

Conceptual modelling is one of the core disciplines within business informatics. Often,
different metamodels have to be integrated to provide project specific or domain specific …

Several scholars have argued for the need to integrate both the IT perspective and the
business perspective during development of enterprises and IS/IT architectures. In this …

Abstract Information overload is perceived as a common problem in organisations and
enterprises, which calls for new organisational and technological approaches for more …

In times of high market transparency and rapidly changing customer requirements, business
process improvement (BPI) is becoming ever more important for companies to reach …