Recently, Ada and Simon started the development of an ontology for Enterprise Architecture (EA) Debt. It delves into the nuances of EA Debt, defined as the gap between the current and ideal states of an organization’s enterprise architecture. The paper highlights the importance of a shared vocabulary to avoid misunderstandings in the domain and proposes …
We are happy to see the first article in the domain of EA Debt being published. It results from two Master’s theses and addresses the need to more effectively identify EA Debts in organizations, as previous approaches were time-demanding. A first set of interviews revealed an additional list of candidates for EA Debts. Having identified …
At this year’s EMMSAD, Jürgen will present the results of an experiment with some students to evaluate if the concept of EA Debts is beneficial. Therefore, one group of students was taught the concept of EA Debts, and the other group was not. Then, the students should model an EA with given requirements, and the …
At this year’s PoEM, Simon and Dominik will present the work of their student Robin, who developed an extension to the CM2KG to be able to store historical data and the differences between the single states of the model. This will allow a first step into the direction to analyze EA Smells that consider changes …
We are happy to conduct the third student conference on enterprise architecture debts. The conference will be online again and take place August 24 from 13:00 to 15:30 CEST. The aim of the conference is to provide the students with the opportunity to present their work to interested practitioners and fellow students as well as …
June 3, 2022 is the date on which we were able to go back to in presence presentations again. After almost 2.5 years and the presentation of the concept of EA Smells at the WI 2020 in Potsdam, Simon and Dominik presented their work on automatizing the detection of EA Smells in EA models. Besides …
We are happy to conduct the second student conference on enterprise architecture debts. The conference will be online again and take place December 17 from 9:00 to 14:00 CET. The aim of the conference is to provide the students with the opportunity to present their work to interested practitioners and fellow students as well as …
Simon had the honor to present the joint work with Muhammad and Dominik on identifying EA Smells in knowledge graphs at the PoEM conference. In their work, they transformed EA models to knowledge graphs and defined cypher queries for 14 EA Smells to automate their detection. To validate their approach, they analyzed 347 ArchiMate models …
September 1, Benny presented the outcomes of his master thesis synthesized into a research article presented at the Conference of Business Informatics. Unfortunately, we were not able to do the presentations in presence. However, this grants the chance to watch his presentation on demand: Moreover, the IEEE published the proceedings of the CBI and, thus, …
Monday October 25, Jürgen and Simon presented the outcomes of several workshops conducted with industry at the SoEA4EE workshop helt at the EDOC conference. After introducing the concept, Jürgen presented the workshop format that we conducted and what we learned from it. The presentation was concluded by good discussions around the concept of EA Debts …