Analysis of IT-Business Models: Towards Theory Development of Business Model Transformation ...

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BMSD 2015
Proceedings of the
Fifth International Symposium on
Business Modeling and Software Design
Milan, Italy
6-8 July 2015
Organized by
IICREST - Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on
Enterprise Systems and Technology
Co-Organized by
Politecnico di Milano
Cooperating Organizations:
AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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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Edited by Boris Shishkov
Graphics Production by Bozhana Yankova
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Printed in Bulgaria

ISBN: 978-989-758-111-3
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BRIEF CONTENTS

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

Barbara Pernici
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Marijn Janssen
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
IV
CHAIR AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE

CHAIR
Boris Shishkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences / IICREST, Bulgaria
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands The Netherlands
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Barrett Bryant, University of North Texas, USA
Netherlands
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The
Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Netherlands
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland
Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, UK
Ognyan Andreev, Technical University of Sofia,
Samuel Chong, Capgemini, UK
Bulgaria
Dimitar Christozov, American University in
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Bulgaria - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Paulo Anita, Delft University of Technology, The
José Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal,
Netherlands
Portugal
Rumen Arnaudov, Technical University of Sofia,
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova,
Bulgaria
Romania
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Joop De Jong, University of Applied Sciences
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands
Jan L. G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
Csaba Boer, TBA, The Netherlands
Teduh Dirgahayu, Universitas Islam Indonesia,
Boyan Bontchev, Sofia University St. Kliment
Indonesia
Ohridski, Bulgaria

V
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (CONT.)

Lyubka Doukovska, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Jelena Marincic, University of Twente, The
Bulgaria Netherlands
Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Michele Missikoff, Institute for Systems Analysis and
Computer Science, Italy
Boris Fritscher, University of Applied Sciences
Western Switzerland, Switzerland Dimitris Mitrakos, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
J. Paul Gibson, T&MSP - Telecom & Management
SudParis, France Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute -
Qatar Foundation, Qatar
Arash Golnam, Business School Lausanne,
Switzerland Ricardo Neisse, European Commission Joint Research
Center, Italy
Rafael Gonzalez, Javeriana University, Colombia
Bart Nieuwenhuis, University of Twente, The
Clever Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of São
Netherlands
Paulo, Brazil
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Pantheon
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Sorbonne, France
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland
Olga Ormandjieva, Concordia University, Canada
Philip Huysmans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands
Ilian Ilkov, IBM, The Netherlands
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, USA
Poland
Dmitry Kan, AlphaSense Inc., Finland
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria Spain
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University,
USA
José Paulo Leal, University of Porto, Portugal
Plamen Petkov, Dublin City University, Ireland
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK
Henderik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science
Leszek Maciaszek, Wroclaw University of and Technology, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Economics, Poland / Macquarie University, Australia
Ricardo Queirós, IPP, Portugal
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (CONT.)

Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey
Gil Regev, EPFL / Itecor, Switzerland Yasar Tonta, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Wenge Rong, Beihang University, China Roumiana Tsankova, Technical University of Sofia,
Bulgaria
Ella Roubtsova, Open University, The Netherlands
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The
Irina Rychkova, University Paris 1 Pantheon
Netherlands
Sorbonne, France
Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The
Mladen Savov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Netherlands
Bulgaria
Fons Wijnhoven, University of Twente, The
Valery Sokolov, Yaroslavl State University, Russia
Netherlands
Richard Starmans, Utrecht University, The
Shin-Jer Yang, Soochow University, Taiwan
Netherlands
Benjamin Yen, University of Hong Kong, China
Cosmin Stoica Spahiu, University of Craiova,
Romania Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College, USA
Coen Suurmond, RBK Group, The Netherlands
VII
BEST PAPERS SELECTION

The authors of around ten selected papers presented at BMSD 2015 will be invited by Springer-Verlag to submit
revised and extended versions of their papers for publication in a Springer LNBIP Series book

VIII
FOREWORD

Using business / enterprise models as a basis for software generation is receiving much attention
and that particular role of business models is three-fold: (a) reaching an adequate integration of the
software system in its enterprise (real-life) context; (b) achieving an enterprise-software traceability;
(c) possibly identifying re-usable business modeling constructs and relating them to corresponding
software components. Hence, we argue that an information system can only be adequate if
properly restricted by a business model, since this justifies the link to the real-life context. A
business model in turn is not only about the business processes and their management but also
about the ways value is created, delivered, and captured. That all brings together technical
disciplines (such as informatics), economic disciplines (such as management), and social disciplines
(such as psychology) – those are brought together in the challenge of adequately delivering
(complex) technology-enabled services to real-life customers.

Thus, developing ADAPTABLE INFORMATION SYSTEMS is considered important because of
the constantly changing real-life environment to which (as explained above) the information system
should conform. “Towards Adaptable Information Systems” is the theme of BMSD 2015 – the
Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, and the scientific areas of interest
to the symposium are: (a) business models and requirements; (b) business models and services; (c)
business models and software; (d) information systems architectures. Further, there are two
application-oriented special sessions, namely: a special session on IT Solutions for Healthcare and a
special session on Intelligent Applications of InterCriteria Decision Making Analysis. Those special
sessions are bringing additional practice-driven value to the symposium.

In considering the above-mentioned areas, it is important to stress the interdisciplinary drive of
BMSD - business modeling and software design. We consider business models from the perspective of
their restricting software specification and we consider software design as (ideally) stemming from
underlying business models. Business models are not only about reflecting entities, processes, and
rules at enterprise level but also about capturing human feelings, beliefs, intentions, and
commitments. As for software specifications, they are based on algorithms and measurable inputs,
and assume technical complexity. Hence, reflecting business models in software specifications is
not trivial: (i) a number of real-life human issues are to restrict the software (otherwise it would not
fit its real-life context); (ii) at the same time, in developing software, one would inevitably get
technically restricted by the platforms and technologies chosen to be used. How to balance
between (i) and (ii) has been widely researched during the past 15 years but we still miss a definitive
and widely accepted approach on that. Model-driven engineering (through its MDA "realization")
is not a solution because it assumes as "starting point" a computation-independent model of the
software system-to-be but real-life human aspects (as discussed above) are not captured. Service-
oriented computing is not giving the answer too even though it "justifies" the challenge on
balancing between (i) and (ii), by letting users compose services at high level (not being aware of
the underlying technical complexity) while the services themselves are being realized by
implemented software components - it is obviously impossible to guarantee that all the user
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