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This paper gives a brief overview of the 9thWorkshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research(TEAR) held at EDOC 2014. The paper introduces the Workshopresearch topics and presents the accepted papers.

With numerous enterprise architecture management (EAM) methodologies, frameworks, and tools, there are still no universally excepted standard on what Enterprise Architecture (EA) really means to practicing architects. Traditionally practitioners ...

Today, Enterprises act in an increasingly interconnected world and in different kinds of collaborative networks. They are part of business ecosystems in which they interact with their customers, partners and competitors. The processes of analyzing and ...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) management is a well-defined practice for conducting coherent analysis, design, planning, and implementation for the successful execution of business strategy. In practice many organizations are struggling with EA frameworks ...

Analysis and planning of Enterprise Architectures (EA) is a complex task for stakeholders. The change of one architecture element has impact on multiple other elements because of manifold relationships and interactions between them. The interactive ...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) modeling languages describe an enterprise architecture holistically. Therefore, they show an enterprise's business products and services, and how these are realized by IT infrastructure and applications. However, EA modeling ...

Companies today interact in an increasingly competitive environment and seek to leverage the potentials of IT for generating new business models and for changing existing ones. For these business models, companies have to align the respective business ...

To stay competitive, enterprises must respond to changes as effectively and efficiently as possible and ensure the employed courses of action, whether in response to change or even to optimize business as usual, fall within the purview of internal and ...

Enterprise Architecture Management relies on information from different management levels, functional areas and for example in case of holdings or mergers from different organizations. This results in a variety of tools, models, and model schemata that ...

Today's Enterprises exist in highly dynamic environment. While enterprise-architecture (EA) based models help in holistic treatment of enterprise aspects, they are static in nature and do not represent the complex dynamic behavior of enterprise as it ...

From the point of view of an enterprise architect, the visual analysis of the structure of an Enterprise Model can provide powerful insights and facilitate various analysis tasks. However, analysis methods and visualizations that offer the most valuable ...

In this paper, we first describe the tension between type-safety and flexibility in EA analysis tools. We then present a web-based system that combines the benefits of static typing with the flexibility of a dynamic and collaborative meta-modeling ...

This preface provides a brief overview of the Third International Workshop on Adaptive Case Management and other Non-workflow Approaches to BPM (AdaptiveCM) held in conjunction with EDOC 2014. The preface introduces the workshop goals, lists the ...

At the workshop, we see the results of some of the foremost researchers for technology that is aimed not at replacing workers, but augmenting knowledge workers, striving to avoid the urge to automate, but instead to facilitate. The focus is more on ...

Non-traditional scenarios for Business Process Management (BPM) are often knowledge-intensive and driven by user decisions making it difficult to specify them into a set of activities with precedence relations at design-time. Adaptive Case Management (...

One of the main goals of process mining is to automatically discover meaningful process models from event logs. Since these logs are the essential source of information for discovery algorithms, their quality is of high importance. In recent years, many ...

The operational support of knowledge-intensive business processes constitutes a big challenge. In particular, this process type is characterized as non-predictable, emergent, goaloriented, and knowledge-creating. Today, knowledge-intensive business ...

We report on a recent industrial project carried out by Exformatics A/S in which the company used the declarative DCR Graphs notation to model and implement the grant application process of a Danish foundation. We present the process and discuss the ...

In Adaptive Case Management (ACM) systems, knowledge workers have the flexibility to deal with unpredictable situations. Compared with a classical BPM approach the extensive prescriptive process analysis and definitions are replaced by context-sensitive ...

This position paper explores the idea that the blackboard system metaphor can be used to enrich collaborative ACM systems where there is need to mobilize knowledge workers with different areas of expertise for solving a case. Inspired by this metaphor, ...

Separation of concerns has long been an important strategy in the software systems development to cope with the complexity embedded in such systems. The same type of concerns, like security concerns, is often repeated in many modules of a system, which ...

Cloud computing has been rapidly adopted by enterprises worldwide in the recent years. During this period, both best practices and lessons learned have been accumulated and have been put into practice. However, few systematic works focus on engineering ...

NoSQL databases have emerged as the solution to handle large quantities of user-generated contents still guaranteeing fault tolerance, availability and scalability. Each NoSQL database offers differentiated properties and characteristics as well as ...

Cloud developers have to make several decisions when running their application in a cloud environment that may lead to conflicting objectives, inefficient deployment, and inappropriate or not existing adaptation strategies. Proper decision-support tools ...