Publications

@inproceedings{jung2026taxonomyEADebts,

title = {Towards a Taxonomy for Enterprise Architecture Debts},

author = {Jürgen Jung and Simon Hacks},

editor = {Alessandro Gianola and Renata Guizzardi and José Borbinha and Miguel Mira Silva and José Barateiro},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15140-7_1},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-15140-7_1},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

booktitle = {Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing: 29th International Conference, EDOC 2025, Revised Selected Papers},

pages = {3–22},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{pagels2026llmEADebt,

title = {Large Language Models for Analyzing Enterprise Architecture Debt in Unstructured Documentation},

author = {Christin Pagels and Simon Hacks and Rob Henk Bemthuis},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00046},

doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2604.00046},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2026)},

pages = {815–822},

publisher = {ACM},

note = {Author version / preprint; definitive version listed as ACM SAC 2026.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hacks2025wstEADebt,

title = {Advancing Enterprise Architecture Debt: Insights from Work System Theory},

author = {Simon Hacks and Ada Slupczynski},

editor = {Rébecca Deneckère and Marite Kirikova and Janis Grabis},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04375-7_7},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-04375-7_7},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Perspectives in Business Informatics Research},

volume = {562},

pages = {107–123},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{slupczynski2024knowledgeBaseEADebt,

title = {Towards a Knowledge Base of Terms on Enterprise Architecture Debt},

author = {Ada Slupczynski and Simon Hacks},

editor = {Tiago Prince Sales and Sybren Kinderen and Henderik A. Proper and Luise Pufahl and Dimka Karastoyanova and Marten Sinderen},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54712-6_12},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-54712-6_12},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2023 Workshops},

volume = {498},

pages = {194–210},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{slupczynski2024prudenceRecklessnessEADebt,

title = {Defining and Evaluating Prudence and Recklessness of Enterprise Architecture Debt},

author = {Ada Slupczynski and Peter Alexander and Horst Lichter},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64755-0_12},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-64755-0_12},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Enterprise Information Systems: 25th International Conference, ICEIS 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II},

volume = {519},

pages = {237–261},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{borquez2024optimizingEADebt,

title = {Optimizing Enterprise Architecture: Strategic Approaches to Managing Enterprise Architecture Debt},

author = {Nikolas Vergara Borquez and Max Holmgren and Simon Hacks},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI62504.2024.00011},

doi = {10.1109/CBI62504.2024.00011},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {2024 IEEE 26th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)},

pages = {1–9},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hacks2023firstValidationEADebts,

title = {A First Validation of the Enterprise Architecture Debts Concept},

author = {Simon Hacks and Jürgen Jung},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34241-7_15},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-34241-7_15},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling},

pages = {217–226},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},

note = {BPMDS/EMMSAD@CAiSE 2023},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{slupczynski2023prudenceProcessEADebts,

title = {A Process for Evaluating the Prudence of Enterprise Architecture Debts},

author = {Ada Slupczynski and Peter Alexander and Horst Lichter},

url = {https://doi.org/10.5220/0011971400003467},

doi = {10.5220/0011971400003467},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2023) – Volume 2},

pages = {623–630},

publisher = {SciTePress},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{glaser2022modelBasedEAKG,

title = {Model-Based Construction of Enterprise Architecture Knowledge Graphs},

author = {Philipp-Lorenz Glaser and Syed Juned Ali and Emanuel Sallinger and Dominik Bork},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17604-3_4},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-17604-3_4},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing},

pages = {57–73},

publisher = {Springer},

series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},

note = {Includes Enterprise Architecture Smell enrichment/detection as part of the EAKG approach.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{bratfors2022historizationEAKG,

title = {Historization of Enterprise Architecture Models via Enterprise Architecture Knowledge Graphs},

author = {Robin Bråtfors and Simon Hacks and Dominik Bork},

editor = {Jelena Zdravkovic and Janis Stirna and Jānis Grabis and Sjaak Brinkkemper},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21488-2_4},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-21488-2_4},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {The Practice of Enterprise Modeling},

pages = {51–65},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{maqsood2022viewpointsEADebt,

title = {A Viewpoints-Based Analysis of Enterprise Architecture Debt},

author = {Ather Maqsood and Peter Alexander and Horst Lichter and Sansiri Tanachutiwat},

editor = {Chua-Chin Wang and Arumugam Nallanathan},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13181-3_11},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-13181-3_11},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Communications},

pages = {133–154},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {Signals and Communication Technology},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{tieu2021determiningEASmells,

title = {Determining Enterprise Architecture Smells from Software Architecture Smells},

author = {Benny Tieu and Simon Hacks},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CBI52690.2021.10064},

doi = {10.1109/CBI52690.2021.10064},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {2021 IEEE 23rd Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)},

volume = {2},

pages = {134–142},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{smajevic2021knowledgeGraphsEASmells,

title = {Using Knowledge Graphs to Detect Enterprise Architecture Smells},

author = {Muhamed Smajevic and Simon Hacks and Dominik Bork},

editor = {Estefanía Serral and Janis Stirna and Jolita Ralyté and Jānis Grabis},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91279-6_4},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-91279-6_4},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {The Practice of Enterprise Modeling},

volume = {432},

pages = {48–63},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{jung2021revealingCommonEADebts,

title = {Revealing Common Enterprise Architecture Debts: Conceptualization and Critical Reflection on a Workshop Format Industry Experience Report},

author = {Jürgen Jung and Simon Hacks and Thijmen Gooijer and Matti Kinnunen and Kevin Rehring},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW52865.2021.00058},

doi = {10.1109/EDOCW52865.2021.00058},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)},

pages = {271–278},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{liss2021refactoringEASmells,

title = {Towards a Catalog of Refactoring Solutions for Enterprise Architecture Smells},

author = {Lukas Liss and Henrik Kämmerling and Peter Alexander and Horst Lichter},

url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3062/Paper09_QuASoQ.pdf},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of SEED 2021 and QuASoQ 2021 Co-located with APSEC 2021},

volume = {3062},

pages = {60–69},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{salentin2020catalogEASmells,

title = {Towards a Catalog of Enterprise Architecture Smells},

author = {Johannes Salentin and Simon Hacks},

url = {https://doi.org/10.30844/wi_2020_y1-salentin},

doi = {10.30844/wi_2020_y1-salentin},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {WI2020 Community Tracks},

pages = {276–290},

publisher = {GITO Verlag},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{alexander2020frameworkEADebts,

title = {A Framework for Managing Enterprise Architecture Debts: Outline and Research Directions},

author = {Peter Alexander and Simon Hacks and Jürgen Jung and Ulrike Steffens and Ömer Uludağ and Horst Lichter},

url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2628/paper1.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {10th International Workshop on Enterprise Modeling and Information Systems Architectures (EMISA 2020)},

volume = {2628},

pages = {5–10},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{lehmann2020processAntipatternsEA,

title = {Towards the Identification of Process Anti-Patterns in Enterprise Architecture Models},

author = {Barry-Detlef Lehmann and Peter Alexander and Horst Lichter and Simon Hacks},

url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2767/06-QuASoQ-2020.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ 2020)},

volume = {2767},

pages = {47–54},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hacks2019definitionEADebts,

title = {Towards the Definition of Enterprise Architecture Debts},

author = {Simon Hacks and Hendrik Höfert and Johannes Salentin and Yoon Chow Yeong and Horst Lichter},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00016},

doi = {10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00016},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)},

pages = {9–16},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}