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Ambjörn Naeve on Provocative Modelling

Enterprise Modelling, Information Systems, Presentation, Prototype, Slides, SYSLAB

Ambjörn Naeve held a seminar on Provocative Modelling on 12 February. Ambjörn is presently a guest lecturer at DSV. Here follows Ambjörn’s summary and documentation of the seminar.

Provocative Modeling is a term that I came up with a while ago to describe models that provoke “engagement by disagreement” by exposing controversial ideas, beliefs and assumptions – often called prejudice. Since we can process only up to about 30 bits per second in our conscious mind, while we are at the same time receiving about 3 million bits per second through our senses, this information needs to be compressed about 100.000 times before we can deal with it on the conscious level. Hence, without pre-judging there can be no effective judging, and therefore it is not an option to be without prejudice. The question is only which prejudices you have. Also, by exposing your underlying beliefs and assumptions related to an issue, they become visible and therefore amenable to change. This is what Peter Senge calls Mental Modeling (http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034656.html), which is one of the five disciplines of organizational learning (http://www.solonline.org/organizational_overview).In my talk I will display (what I think is) some of my more “provocative models” on terrorism, religion, gender, education, economics, and promotion strategies within a large organization. These models have been developed in our modeling tool Conzilla (www.conzilla.org) and the links to the presented models will be made available for the participants.

Some slides on Disagreement Management:
Ambjorn on Disagreement Management (Innsbruck, Febr 2009), Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/EagleBear/ambjrn-on-disagreement-managment-988233

In order to navigate the Conzilla-URLs below, you must first download Conzilla. Point your web browser to www.conzilla.org and click ’Download’ (to the left) and then ’Launch’ (under Conzilla 2.2 at the top of the page).

Below are the Conzilla-URLs for the maps that I discussed during my talk – and for some other ones that are related. Remember that these “Conzilla-URLs” have to be copied and pasted into the Conzilla address window (called Context-Map URI). To learn how to navigate Conzilla maps, go to www.conzilla.org/wiki/Doc/Navigation

Here are the Conzilla-URLs for:

the models that I discussed in my talk:

Terrorism (Dialogue map – Compendium-style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/religion/presentation/CM#52ded2112b5e07658

Religious Interoperability (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/religion/layoutCM#77e8ce1135e14f936

Discriminator questions (Decision tree style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df3732a88

Large Bureaucracies (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#70fa7d8911db90cc08e39c

Penetrating the Glass Ceiling (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-5532ba2611dc8e76cb33b5

Militarism-Terrorism (Peter Senge, The 5th Discipline) (mixture of ULM + Systems modeling styles):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#b52041113a08ce406

Shifting the Burden (The 5th Discipline , Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#95afdb1139d16ecc2476

Workload-Stress-Alcohol (Peter Senge, The 5th Discipline) (Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#7421ff112010afd4f

Gender modeling (ULM + mathematical style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/gender/layoutCM#b89c061139b60fb95

The Financial Crisis (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-55dd4cc111dfd7ca38d


models that are related – but were not discussed in my talk:

Knowledge Emulation (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#7925ae115b9ec94862d4

Globalization (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#c126b31157ea353aa8b3

Global Climate Change (Peter Senge) (Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#c36b2a113afe2c1df

The Stock Market (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-182d208411d950e3a84

Soros’ Boom-Bust model (Special style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/KLM/layout/contextmap#-1c4314fc11d8bcf072a

Political power systems – the Cracy Ontology (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/politics/presentation/CM#76358a113b9b34bf3

Ideologies (Timeline style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/politics/presentation/CM#cbbdf310ac7b5259a5b3

Selfish and Unselfish Knowledge (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#76358a115a4478b6c

Swedish Asylum Policy (Process modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#ecdb1b11702d608cf

Corporate Greed (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#60563f8811dafaa95256b3

Aiding Africa – corruption of foreign aid (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#3bcb8ca411dcb9b02ca1fa6

Advertise-Consume (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#83484811883528013184b

Mass(age) media (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#f6e3e9115adc3e27b

Automatization by Computers (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#f15f7f115aaa59b29

Automatization and LifeLong Learning (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#e40f4c115a8cd6e0e

Problem – Solution (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1b9ca71

Problem – Solution applied to crime (Systems modeling style)::
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1dd250e

Problem – Solution applied to early mathematics education (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1ed8110

Problem – Solution applied to academic mathematics education (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df2132b32

Best Paper Award at ER’09 for Paper on Anchor Modelling

Award, Enterprise Modelling, Information Systems, Presentation, Research Paper, Slides, SYSLAB

We got the best paper award at The 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’09)! Lars Rönnbäck who presented the paper is shown above receiving the award.

Anchor Modeling – An Agile Modeling Technique using the Sixth Normal Form for Structurally and Temporally Evolving Data
By: Olle Regardt, Lars Rönnbäck, Maria Bergholtz, Paul Johannesson, Petia Wohed (Affecto and DSV, SU/KTH, Sweden)

Read the paper

More on Anchor modeling

Presentation on eHealth by Monica Winge

Health Informatics, Information Systems, Photo, Presentation, Slides, SYSLAB

Monica Winge from Vinnova talked today about challenges and opportunities in e-health. One of the main challenges in today’s health care is to realise patient centered work processes. This is a complex task as many different care providers need to cooperate. IT systems and services could be a major enabler for this purpose, but still they are insufficient as they are often based on the care provider’s organisational views and not the needs of the patient.

Monica Winge has worked for a number of years at Karolinska Institutet, and she is presently at Vinnova. Monica has been the project leader of several e-health projects. She has been elected as one of “the 25 most powerful people in e-health in Sweden“.

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Understanding Services through Value Modelling

Enterprise Modelling, Information Systems, Presentation, Research Paper, Slides, SYSLAB

At the VMBO workshop, February 9 – 10 2009 in Stockholm, I gave a presentation on the use of value modeling for representing and understanding services.

Abstract
Service-oriented architectures are the upcoming business standard for realizing
enterprise information systems, thus creating a need for analysis and design
methods that are truly service-oriented. Most research on this topic so far takes
a software engineering perspective. For a proper alignment between business
and IT, a service perspective at the business level is needed as well. In this
paper, a unified view of services is introduced by means of a service ontology,
service classification and service layer architecture.

Aspects of a REA Ontology Based Business Service Concept in Value Models
authored by
Hans Weigand, Paul Johannesson, Birger Andersson, Maria Bergholtz

VMBOfinal.ppt

Presentation slides

Anders Tell visits SYSLAB

Enterprise Modelling, Information Systems, Photo, Presentation, Slides, SYSLAB

Anders Tell from Toolsmiths gave a talk about effective e-tools for business people. Anders Tell has many years of experience of model driven architectures and has been active in several international standardisation organisations. Anders asked the question: Do business analysts, experts and practitioners have access to and knowledge of effective tools and models for carrying out business modeling, architecture, implementation, operations and follow-up? Thanks, Anders, for a thought inspiring seminar!

Slides

Presentation on Service Oriented Business Models for ERP

Information Systems, Presentation, Service Science, Slides, SYSLAB

Today I gave a presentation on new business models for service oriented enterprise systems at the ARIS ProcessDays Nordic 2008. The presentation discussed how ERP functionality can be provided through services. New roles will emerge, like the platform provider who will provide support for a network of users and vendors. The audience showed much interest and posed questions about the consequences for ICT departments, whether security will be a problem for the new business models, the impact of open source, and the role of networks.

Slides

NTUA visits SYSLAB

Information Systems, Presentation, Slides, SYSLAB

This Friday, Yannis Charalabidis, George Gionis, Tassos Tsitsanis, and Ourania Markaki from National Technical University of Athens visited us. National Technical University of Athens is one of the oldest, most prestigious and most competitive academic institute in Greece. The Decision Support Systems Laboratory of NTUA has a long and successful tradition in research activities, in the areas of Information Systems, eGovernment, eBusiness, and complex IT project design and evaluation. Yannis and his colleagues gave a presentation of recent work on eBusiness and eGovernment. NTUA has a solid experience in these areas; one example is that NTUA has set up a registry containing more than 1000 public service definitions.

Thanks Yannis, George, Tassos, and Ourania for sharing your experiences!

Presentation slides

GENESIS project

eGIF – Greece

GIC project

William Song visits SYSLAB

Information Systems, Presentation, Slides, SYSLAB

Today William Song from the University of Durham gave a seminar on the Semantic Grid.

Abstract:
Many potential applications (still research topics at moment) across the web are investigated and studied. Among others, Web Services and the semantic Grid are two major research subjects which have attracted a lot of research efforts. A key problem with Web Services is how to automate the discovery and composition of web services so that it is effective and precise to find a flexible match between the service requesters’ requirements and the service providers’ description of their services. A key problem with the Semantic Grid is how to generate a virtual organization that is able to coordinate, share, collaborate, and flexible yet securely access to various resources, be they software or hardware, that reside on (geographically) different physical organizations. This presentation aims to share with you our recent investigation in these two aspects.

Virtual Organizations and Web Services

Semantics Service Composition Using Conceptual Graphs

William’s home page