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BMSD 2017
Proceedings of the
Seventh International Symposium on
Business Modeling and Software Design
Barcelona, Spain
3-5 July 2017
Organized by
IICREST - Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on
Enterprise Systems and Technology
In Cooperation with
AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
TU DELFT - Delft University of Technology
CTIT - the Center for Telematics and Information Technology of
University of Twente
IMI - the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
SIKS - the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems
AMAKOTA Ltd.
Technical Co-Sponsorship by
BPM-D
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RIEF ONTENTS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ..................................................................................................................... IV
CHAIR AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE ................................................................................................ V
BEST PAPERS SELECTION ........................................................................................................... VIII
FOREWORD .................................................................................................................................... IX
CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................. XIII
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EYNOTE PEAKERS

Norbert Gronau
University of Potsdam
Germany
Oscar Pastor
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Spain
Alexander Verbraeck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
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HAIR AND ROGRAM OMMITTEE

CHAIR
Boris Shishkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences / IICREST, Bulgaria
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Samuel Chong, Capgemini, UK
The Netherlands
Dimitar Christozov, American University in
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Bulgaria - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Netherlands
José Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal,
Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Portugal
Netherlands
Jan L. G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology,
Paulo Anita, Delft University of Technology, The The Netherlands
Netherlands
Teduh Dirgahayu, Universitas Islam Indonesia,
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany Indonesia
Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Lyubka Doukovska, Bulgarian Academy of
Netherlands Sciences, Bulgaria
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany John Edwards, Aston University, UK
Boyan Bontchev, Sofia University St. Kliment Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ohridski, Bulgaria
Boris Fritscher, University of Applied Sciences
Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, Western Switzerland, Switzerland
The Netherlands
J. Paul Gibson, T&MSP - Telecom & Management
Barrett Bryant, University of North Texas, USA SudParis, France
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Arash Golnam, Business School Lausanne,
Switzerland
Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Rafael Gonzalez, Javeriana University, Colombia
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
Clever Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of
Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, UK
São Paulo, Brazil
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ROGRAM OMMITTEE ONT

Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Bart Nieuwenhuis, University of Twente, The
Netherlands
Philip Huysmans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University, Germany
Ilian Ilkov, IBM, The Netherlands
Olga Ormandjieva, Concordia University, Canada
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, USA
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands
Netherlands
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Dmitry Kan, AlphaSense Inc., Finland
Poland
Mathias Kirchmer, University of Pennsylvania /
Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia,
BPM-D, USA
Spain
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
José Paulo Leal, University of Porto, Portugal
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University,
USA
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK
Plamen Petkov, Dublin City University, Ireland
Leszek Maciaszek, Wroclaw University of
Economics, Poland / Macquarie University, Australia
Henderik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science
and Technology, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Jelena Marincic, Altran, The Netherlands
Ricardo Queirós, IPP, Portugal
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria
Wenge Rong, Beihang University, China
Vaughan Michell, University of Reading, UK
Ella Roubtsova, Open University, The Netherlands
Michele Missikoff, Institute for Systems Analysis and
Computer Science, Italy
Irina Rychkova, University Paris 1 Pantheon
Sorbonne, France
Dimitris Mitrakos, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Ricardo Neisse, European Commission Joint Research
Valery Sokolov, Yaroslavl State University, Russia
Center, Italy

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ROGRAM OMMITTEE ONT

Richard Starmans, Utrecht University, The Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of
Netherlands Technology, The Netherlands
Coen Suurmond, RBK Group, The Netherlands Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The
Netherlands
Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University, The
Netherlands Fons Wijnhoven, University of Twente, The
Netherlands
Roumiana Tsankova, Technical University of Sofia,
Bulgaria Shin-Jer Yang, Soochow University, Taiwan
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Benjamin Yen, University of Hong Kong, China
Netherlands
Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College, USA
Ramayah Thurasamy, Universiti Sains Malaysia,
Malaysia
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EST APERS ELECTION

The authors of around fifteen selected papers presented at BMSD 2017 will be invited by Springer-Verlag to submit
revised and extended versions of their papers for publication in a Springer LNBIP Series book.

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OREWORD

Businesses changed when computers first appeared on the scene and enterprises had to
accommodate (partial) automation of their business processes. Businesses changed again when web
services and cloud infrastructures appeared, and enterprises faced the challenge of making (some)
internal business processes external. All those changes have been justifying more and more the
necessity of bringing together enterprise modeling and software specification – an enterprise engineer alone
is insufficiently capable of grasping the technical complexity of an enterprise's IT system and its
reach outside through software services, while a software engineer would have only superficial
enterprise-specific domain knowledge. However, enterprise engineering and software engineering have
developed separately, and hence the alignment between enterprise modeling and software
specification is still uncertain. Bridging that gap is thus considered important with regard to
Enterprise Information Systems - EIS. For this reason, the development of EIS should assume
conceptual foundations that represent a common ground for creating models, no matter if they are
enterprise-driven or software-driven. This would facilitate a modeling co-creation featuring: (a)
technology-independent enterprise models rooted in social theories; (b) technology-specific software specifications rooted
in computing paradigms, such that an integrated enterprise-software modeling is possible.

Among the challenges that are to be taken into account in this regard are: (i) the modeling
generations and transformations (starting from unstructured business information, coming through
enterprise models, and reaching as far as the specification and implementation of software); (ii) the
alignment of the final software product with corresponding business goals, business semantics and
business processes; (iii) the optimization of processes not only at enterprise level but also at
software level; (iv) the enabling of agile business processes and the partitioning in turn of business
logic into fine grained software services; (v) the (real-time) inter-enterprise coordination covering
both business processes and software services; (vi) the adaptation of business processes to new IT-
driven demands; (vii) the handling of product variability on the enterprise level as well as on the
technical level; (viii) the reflection of context-awareness in engineered enterprise / software
systems; (ix) the weaving of values, such as privacy and transparency, in the design, both on the
enterprise level and also on the technical level as well as the establishment of information security;
(x) the integration between business, IT and the operations technology; (xi) the achievement of
loose coupling with regard to the integration of different software services; (xii) the enabling of
human-centricity in the development of EIS; (xiii) the translation of (enterprise-level) strategy into
(technology-enabled) execution; (xiv) the enrichment of enterprise / software models in terms of
data, by considering knowledge representation, ontologies, and big data; (xv) the use of proper
enterprise / software modeling notations. Those are only some discussion points relevant to the
enterprise engineering area and its relation to software specification, being dominant for the
researchers and practitioners brought together by BMSD 2017 - the Seventh International Symposium on
Business Modeling and Software Design. BMSD demonstrates for a seventh consecutive year a high
quality of papers and presentations as well as a stimulating discussion environment. Those papers
and also the above-mentioned challenges inspire the BMSD Community, and are in line with the
main BMSD Areas:
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