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Fakultät für Informatik Technische Universität München A Visual Tool for Conflict Resolution in EA Repositories Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, Jul. 08 2013 Tobias Schrade Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis) wwwmatthes. in. tum. de Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 © sebis 1

Agenda § Introduction § Research Objective and Questions § Approach • Meta information model • Mock-ups § Timeline § References Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 © sebis 2

Introduction Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 © sebis 3

Research Objective and Questions • Research Objective: Facilitate model conflict tasks with visualizations to provide an easy understanding of the given model and respective conflicts; enhance the process of solving the conflicts with relevant background information and change memory. • Q 1: “How to provide (interactive) visual means to communicate and resolve model conflicts? ” • Q 1. 1: “Which (EA) visualizations are scalable for large (<=1 K Objects) EA models? ” • Q 1. 2: “Which layout algorithms are suitable to visualize EA model conflicts? ” Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 © sebis 4

Approach § Meta information model Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 © sebis 5

Approach § Mock-ups Object Type # of objects <Application Component> Concept A (50) Attribute (10): String [1, 1] ! Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] ! 20 % Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 80 % Attribute Name Legend 20 % Defined Concept Attribute Type Cardinalities Undefined Concept Derived Concept © sebis 6

Approach § Mock-ups <Application Component> Concept A (50) Attribute (10): String [1, 1] ! Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] ! 20 % 80 % <Infrastructure> Concept B (50) <Infrastructure> Concept C (50) Attribute (10): String [1, 1] ! Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] ! 20 % 80 % Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 20 % 80 % © sebis 7

Approach § Mock-ups <Application Component> Instance A 1 Concept A (50) Attribute (10): String [1, 1] Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] 20 ! Instance A 2 ! 80 frastructure> <infrastructure> ncept B (50) (10): 1] cture (10): ship [1, *] 80 Concept C (50) ! ! Attribute (10): String [1, 1] Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] 20 80 Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 Instance A 4 Instance A 5 ! Instance A 6 ! Instance A 7 Instance A 8 © sebis 8

Approach § Mock-ups <Application Component> Instance A 1 Concept A (50) Attribute (10): String [1, 1] Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] 20 ! Instance A 6 ! 80 Instance A 7 frastructure> <infrastructure> ncept B (50) (10): 1] cture (10): ship [1, *] 80 Concept C (50) ! ! Attribute (10): String [1, 1] Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] 20 ! ! 80 Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 © sebis 9

Approach § Mock-ups Name: „Instance A 4“ => „Instance A 1“ <Application Component> Instance A 1 Concept A (50) Attribute (10): String [1, 1] Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] 20 Name: „Instance A 4“ => „Instance A 3“ ! Own Name: „…………………. . “ Instance A 6 ! 80 <Application Component> Instance A 1 Instance A 7 Attribute : „Attribute A 1“ ! ! Infrastructure : Instance B 1, Instance C 1 frastructure> <infrastructure> ncept B (50) (10): 1] cture (10): ship [1, *] 80 Concept C (50) ! ! Attribute (10): String [1, 1] Infrastructure (10): Relationship [1, *] 20 80 ! ! <Infrastructure> Instance B 1 Attribute : „Attribute B 1“ Attribute : „Attribute C 1“ Infrastructure : Instance D 1 Infrastructure : Instance E 1 Legend Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 <Infrastructure> Instance C 1 Conflict No Conflict © sebis 10

Timeline Jul. 15 Official Start, Literature research, other approaches Sep. 01 Start to write thesis Dec. 15 Finish thesis Aug. 15 Begin implementation Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 © sebis 11

References [Fa 13] Farwick, M. , Hauder, M. , Roth, S. , Matthes, F. , Breu, R. : Enterprise Architecture Documentation: Empirical Analysis of Information Sources for Automation, 46 th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 46), Maui, Hawaii, 2013. [Ro 13 a] Roth, S. , Hauder, M. , Farwick, M. , Matthes, F. , Breu, R. : Enterprise Architecture Documentation: Current Practices and Future Directions, 11 th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), Leipzig, Germany, 2013. [Ro 13 b] Roth, S. , Matthes, F. : Future Research Topics in Enterprise Architectures Evolution Analysis, Design for Future (DFF) Workshop, 2013. [Ro 13 c] Roth, S. , Hauder, M. , Matthes, F. : Evolution of Enterprise Architecture Models through Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitating Conflict Resolution with Tasks, MRT Workshop, Miami, 2013 (in submission) [HMR 12] Hauder, M. , Matthes, F. , Roth, S. : Challenges for Automated Enterprise Architecture Documentation. In: 7 th International Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR), Barcelona, Spain, 2012. [Wie 12] Wieland, K. . Langer, P. , Seidl, M. , Wimer, M. , Kappel, G. : Turning Conflicts into Collaboration, Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, tba: 1 -52, 2012 Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, 08. 07. 2013 © sebis 12

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