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Process design methods for sustainable energy systems

Today, energy is the driver of the modern society, allowing for transforming raw materials and resources into ``useful'' products and services. Concerns on climate change and resources scarcity together with the increasing importance put on the environment ...

2011

Agreement negotiation support in virtual organisation creation–an illustrative case

Michel Pouly

In the actual market conditions, where it is essential to rapidly respond to business opportunities that might emerge, the concept of virtual organisation (VO) appears particularly well suited. The possibility of rapidly forming a VO to respond to a busine ...

2010

Formal semantics for refinement verification of entreprise models

Irina Rychkova

In this dissertation we investigate how Business/IT alignment in enterprise models can be enhanced by using a software engineering stepwise refinement paradigm. To have an IT system that supports an enterprise and meets the enterprise business needs, manag ...

EPFL2008

Compatibility modeling to support opportunity analysis in new product development

Julie Hohenegger

The general context of this Ph.D. dissertation is the new product development (NPD) which is the process for transforming an opportunity that is a business or technology gap in the current situation into a product available for sale. This Ph.D. dissertatio ...

EPFL2007

Emergence of RE in Large Corporations: Lessons Learned From an RE Project at P&G

Julien Favre, Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

In this paper we describe the successful use of RE methods in a project at Procter and Gamble UK. We identify two main elements for this success. The first element is the combination of methods from P&G and academia (Adoption Methodology and Lightswitch). ...

2006

Modelling the regulative role of business processes with use and misuse cases

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

Business processes contain value-added and abuse prevention activities. Most modelling techniques do not provide a rationale for abuse prevention activities. Such a rationale is needed when redesigning business processes. In this paper we propose to consid ...

2005

Theory and practice behind the course designing enterprisewide IT systems

Alain Wegmann

As a consequence of the co-evolution of business and information technology (IT), the responsibilities of software engineers are expanding. They are becoming much more involved in business-related issues. When defining computing curriculums, this trend nee ...

2004

The Value of Roles in Modeling Business Processes

Alain Wegmann, Pavel Balabko, Nicolas Clément

Rapid business changes require companies to make rapid changes in business processes and ultimately in BPS systems. These changes can be done rapidly if business modelers understand the base roles of business processes and relationships between these roles ...

2004

A Synthesis of Business Role Models

Alain Wegmann, Pavel Balabko

Modern Information and Communication Technology open a door for innovations that can improve the functioning of companies. Many innovations can come from the analysis of business processes. Today modeling is widely used for the analysis of business process ...

2003

A Systemic Paradigm for Early IT System Requirements Based on Regulation Principles: The Lightswitch Approach

Gil Regev

IT system is a general term for all software based business applications used in enterprises. IT systems support the actions of an enterprise by processing information about the enterprise and its environment and by providing this information to the enterp ...

2003

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