The “Babel tower effect”, induced by the heterogeneity of applications available in the operation of enterprises brings to a consistent lack of “exchangeability” and risk of semantic loss whenever cooperation has to take place within the same enterprise. Generally speaking, this kind of problem falls within the umbrella of interoperability between local reference information models .This positi...

This paper introduces a new approach to draw up business competencies as well as to facilitate their exchange and diffusion through an e-marketplace. The business model and a view on a technical solution to implement « B-C Market » has been built in the context of an e-marketplace. Obviously, the main challenge to cope is to find a way to outline and retrieve the competencies. Business competen...

Humans will soon need to adapt to a collaborative setting in which technology becomes a smart collaboration partner that works with a group to achieve its goals. It is therefore time for collaboration researchers to explore the vast opportunities afforded by smart technology and to test its utility for enhancing team processes and outcomes. In this paper, we take a long view on the implications...

This paper introduces an assurance framework for networked medical device development. This work is being conducted to address the everincreasing concerns of medical device security with a specific focus on medical devices to be incorporated into IT networks. The framework utilises a Process Assessment Model and a Process Reference Model to address system development lifecycle processes, securi...

The standard reference model (SRM) for intelligent multimedia presentation systems describes a framework for the automatic generation of multimedia presentations. This framework, however, lacks an explicit document model of the presentation being generated. The Amsterdam hypermedia model (AHM) describes the document features of a hypermedia presentation explicitly. We take the AHM and use it as...

The i* framework is a renowned Requirements Engineering approach. This work is part of an ongoing effort to provide ontological interpretations for the i* core concepts. With this, we aim at proposing a more uniform use of the language, in a way that it can be more easily learned by newcomers and more efficiently transferred to industry. Our approach is based on the application of a foundationa...

The paper discusses organisational challenges single companies face while joining collaborative enterprise networks (EN). Following an organisational design approach in organisational differentiation and integration in EN, organisational challenges are identified. Based on steps for designing and implementing quality management systems (QMS), an initial reference model is given as potential bas...

A method has been defined and used to guide teaching and learning on Software Process Improvement (SPI) courses. This method is a customization for education of a method for initiating a process improvement cycle in an organization. This method had been used in twenty-three SPI courses. During the classes, each student learns basic concepts of Software Process Improvement and selected reference...