EDOC Workshop TEAR 2006

The field of enterprise architecture attracted the attention of the research community for the first time, when Zachman introduced the Framework for Information Systems Architecture in 1987. However, it was not until 1996 before enterprise architecture emerged as an active field of business activity and research. In 1996, the Clinger-Cohen Act (also known as the Information Technology Management Reform Act) of the U.S. government directed federal agencies to implement a holistic approach to align information technology to their business goals.

Enterprise architecture is important because organizations need to adapt increasingly fast to changing customer requirements and business goals. This need influences the entire chain of activities of an enterprise, from business processes to IT support. Moreover, a change in one architecture may influence other architectures. For example, when a new product is introduced, someone should be made responsible for it, and business processes for production, sales and after-sales need to be adapted. It might be necessary to change applications, or even adapt the IT infrastructure. Each of these fields will have its own architectures. To keep the enterprise architecture coherent and aligned with the business goals of the enterprise, the relations between these different architectures must be clear, and a change should be carried through methodically in all architectures.

Scope
Until recently, practitioners, consulting firms and tool vendors (e.g., ZIFA, META Group, Troux, MEGA, and Telelogic) have been leading in the development of the EA discipline. Research on enterprise architecture has been taking place in relatively isolated communities. The main objective of this workshop is to bring these different communities of EA researchers together and to identify trends and major research challenges in EA research. This workshop will provide a discussion forum where EA researchers and practitioners can meet and exchange experiences, problems and ideas related to EA.

Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Processes and patterns for establishing and maintaining an EA;
• EA and IT governance;
• Enterprise modelling;
• Service-oriented EA;
• Viewpoints in EA;
• Tool support for EA;
• EA and system development;
• Techniques for analysis and evaluation of an EA;
• EA and e-government;
• EA and the networked enterprise;
• Case studies.

Date & Location
Workshop in conjunction with EDOC 2006, Hong Kong
Monday, 16 October 2006

Conference Website: http://www.edocconference.org/

Workshop Programme

8:30–9:00	Conference registration
9:00–10:30	Opening and Introduction to Enterprise Architecture by Maarten Steen
	Essential Layers, Artifacts, and Dependencies of Enterprise Architecture by Robert Winter, Ronny Fischer
	General Integrated System Architecture and Enterprise Modeling Framework Study by Qing Li, Jian Zhou, Dafeng Xu
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–12:30	A reference model for IT management responsibilities by Magnus Gammelgård, Åsa Lindström, Mårten Simonsson
	Exploring Intentional Modeling and Analysis for Enterprise Architecture by Eric Yu, Markus Strohmaier, Xiaoxue Deng
	An Inquiry Tool for Stakeholder Concerns of Architectural Viewpoints: a Case Study at a Large Financial Service Provider by Henk Koning, Rik Bos, Sjaak Brinkkemper
12:30–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:30	Dynamic Routing as paradigm for decentralized flexible process management by Alistair Barros, Gero Decker
	Expanding the Possibilities for Enterprise Computing: Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures by Gilda Pour
	Enterprise Architecture Analysis and Application – An exploratory Study by Tobias Bucher, Ronny Fisher, Stephan Kurpjuweit, Robert Winter
15:30–16:00	Coffee break
16:00–17:00	Discussion and identification of trends and current research issues

Workshop Format
The workshop is divided in four sessions of 90 minutes each: three paper presentation sessions and a final slot for discussion. Each position paper will be given 20-25 minutes for presentation, leaving 15-30 minutes for discussion of the preceding papers at the end of each session. In the final session we will discuss identified trends and current research issues.

Participants are strongly encouraged to download and read the Workshop papers in advance in order to know other people's positions, and therefore have fruitful discussions during the workshop.

Additional information
For additional information, please contact the workshop chairs at tear2006@telin.nl.

Workshop Chairs
Marc M. Lankhorst,
Maarten W.A. Steen
Telematica Instituut
the Netherlands
Contact

Program Committee
Guiseppe Berio
Scott Bernard
Sjaak Brinkkemper
Luis Camarinha-Matos
Jan Goossenaerts
Stan Hendryx
Erik Proper
Jaap Schekkerman
Hongbing Wang
Robert Winter
Martin Zelm

Supporters
- A-MUSE (Freeband)
- ArchiMate Forum
- Telematica Instituut

EDOC Workshop TEAR 2006

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