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Ontological analyses have been used in numerous publications to compare existing modelling grammars with an ontology. However, a sound theoretical research framework is still missing. Consequently, working with the results of such ontological analyses is theoretically questionable. Therefore, the aim of this paper is threefold. Firstly, we want to contribute to such a theoretical research framework by formalising the ontological analyses approach as sets of mathematical functions between ontological and modelling grammar constructs. Secondly, on this basis, we derive four formal requirements each ontological analyses must comply with. Thirdly, we analyse whether current state of the art ontological analyses comply with our findings. While the formalisation demonstrates the strengths of the ontological analysis approach we conclude that current analyses have theoretical deficiencies, which lead to serious limitations in their application. Lastly, we demonstrate the usefulness of our formal framework by describing a new application. This application uses two different ontological analyses as input and produces mappings between the modelling grammars used in these analyses as output.

Der elektronische Handel befindet sich in der ersten Halfte seiner Entwicklung und ist doch schon Normalitat in den Unternehmen. Fur die Realisierung des Datenaustauschs benotigen die Unternehmen Kommunikationsstandards und Software-losungen.

International audience; BPMN is a standard for modeling business processes and provides meta model concepts for the design of extensions. Thus, domain-specific extensions of the BPMN are facilitated. This research article provides an overview of BPMN extension development by the descriptive analysis and classification of 30 BPMN extensions. An extensive literature review was conducted in order to find published extensions. Further, a classification framework was designed to enable a comprehensive analysis of each extension. The analysis showed, that four out of five extensions are not compliant with the BPMN standard. Also, we found several methodological shortcomings that should be tackled in further research.

This article is also available in German in print and via http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de : Hess T, Legner C, Esswein W, Maas W, Matt C, Osterle H, Schlieter H, Richter P, Zarnekow R (2014) Digital Life als Thema der Wirtschaftsinformatik? WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. doi: 10.1007/s11576-014-0422-6 .

Part 6: Research in Progress and Practice; International audience; Governance and compliance of health care networks gain more and more attention in the IS research. The configuration of medical care workflow systems and the compliance check of care processes according to national and international guidelines is the motivation for this paper. We are following a process model based approach for the management of health care networks. We present a service-based method for the compliance check of process models and enable a configuration of information systems with process models. The application of the method as well as the discussion of the practical benefits is illustrated by a real world case.

Health care systems are facing new challenges such as the aging population, the increasing amount of chronicle diseases and the rapid development of medical technologies. The increasing of the related health care costs lead to the limits of affordability of health care systems. Building Health networks and standardization of clinical processes are the main trend facing these challenges. Actually, the main instrument for documentation and managing of clinical processes are Clinical Pathways (CPs). They allow to transfer evident knowledge in practice and they are the central point of clinical quality management. In contrast, Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) aggregate the evident medical knowledge in a compact form to support physicians in their practice. In the paper analyze the model-driven development of CP for a health network. Therefore, we work out problems of integration. Finally, the paper shows aspect for a model-based integration of CPGs in CPs. These findings are proofed with the help of the documentation of the regional stroke-network called SOS-NET.

The development of information and communication systems, in particular e-commerce systems, is a complex and time intensive task. The development process can be simplified by using reference models. Many reference models for the electronic commerce, such as the model for electronic markets by SCHMID & LINDEMANN (1997) and the OBJECT MANAGEMENT GROUP reference model are known. However, they tend to concentrate on specific aspects of the problem and give insufficient attention to all aspects of good model quality. A number of requirements are important in constructing a reference model as the quality of the construction invariably impacts the quality of the construction invariably impacts the quality of the final model. To determine the quality of a reference model and its construction process an analysis scheme was designed and tested in a case study with a German standardization institution. The practical application of the analysis scheme reveals deficiencies and strengths in some reference modelling processes.

Model migration is needed to transform a model from one modelling language to another to reuse these models and thus, to reduce the costs of building new models. This topic has received much attention mainly because of the OMG’s MDA initiative. However, these approaches are tailored to transform design models. In this paper, we argue that this approach cannot be applied to the field of domain modelling. Therefore, we propose a theoretical framework for model migration, which extends the existing approaches adding a role and a process model to satisfy the requirements of model migrations in a material problem domain.

Die Konstruktion von Softwaresystemen aus Komponenten wird bereits seit dem Ende der 1960er Jahre thematisiert. Den Ausgangspunkt dieser Diskussion bildete Mcllroys Vision einer Softwarekomponenten fertigenden Industrie die Integratoren die Komponenten fur eine industrielle Softwareproduktion bereitstellt. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse einer in Deutschland erhobenen Studie vor deren Ziel es war zu untersuchen ob sich ein Komponentenmarkt bereits etablieren konnte.