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International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support

International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods of Systems Analysis and Development

BPMDS 2016, EMMSAD 2016: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling pp 349–364Cite as

Analysis of Imprecise Enterprise Models

Part of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing book series (LNBIP,volume 248)

Abstract

Enterprises have a large amount of Information Technology (IT) elements for supporting their business. Enterprise models represent the state of IT and business elements and the relation between them in a certain moment. However, in some cases it is difficult to build models that accurately represent the enterprise because information may vary fast over time, or because the granularity of the model may be inadequate for its purpose. When models that are imprecise and do not represent accurately the enterprise are used to perform analysis, it is necessary to evaluate their suitability and determine whether they can be used or if better models have to be constructed. In this paper, we focus on this problem and propose an approach for evaluating the level of imprecision of enterprise models based on the impact and sensitivity of imprecise information regarding an analysis method.

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  • Enterprise modeling
  • Enterprise analysis
  • Models imprecision

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  1. Department of Systems and Computing Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

    Hector Florez, Mario Sánchez & Jorge Villalobos

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  1. Munich University of Applied Scienc, Munich, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  2. Luxembourg Inst. of Science & Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Wided Guédria

  3. Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilia Bider

  4. Univ. Lusófona de Humanidades e Techn., Lisboa, Portugal

    Sérgio Guerreiro

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Florez, H., Sánchez, M., Villalobos, J. (2016). Analysis of Imprecise Enterprise Models. In: Schmidt, R., Guédria, W., Bider, I., Guerreiro, S. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 248. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39429-9_22

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