Scope
The innovation-driven business era poses a major challenge and that challenge is of ‘change’, and changes do not always yield desired benefits. Studying the impact of an innovation in a controlled environment holds an enormous advantage, especially in complex systems and environments. Therefore, Modeling & Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a powerful tool in analyzing and designing complex socio-technical systems such as enterprises.
The main focus of this workshop is on the role, importance, and application of Modeling and Simulation in the context of Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Enterprise Systems Engineering from an organizational perspective. Modeling & Simulation have been widely recognized as an instrument to observe the dynamic behavior of systems, measure IT impacts on organizations, and the outcomes of changes. In addition to extensive research programs, the field of M&S is actively attracting industry and tool developers. This workshop will attract significant contributions by junior researchers as well as seasoned professionals practicing the art of Modeling & Simulation. It will also appeal to teachers of the Enterprise Modeling & Simulation discipline, since this discipline is extensively offered within computing majors.
Workshop Topics
- Enterprise Modeling and Simulation
- Information Systems Modeling and Simulation
- Business Processes Modeling and Simulation
- Organizational Modeling and Simulation
- Ontological and Conceptual Modeling
- Domain-specific Modeling and Languages
- Business Rules and Constrain Modeling
- Modeling and Simulation Methods, Techniques, and Tools
- Modeling and Simulation Tools Demonstration
- Modeling and Simulation Guidelines for Practitioners
- Case Studies on Modeling and Simulation
- Simulations for Model Verification and implementations of Simulation Models
- Requirements Modeling and Simulation
- Usage of graph and network models and other new concepts
- Declarative methods for creating models and applications
- Model-Driven Engineering and transformation between different types of models, for example: ontological, conceptual, process, business, relational, network, implementational, etc
- New theories in modeling. New types of models. Combinations of different types of diagrams and their mutual interrelationships
- Educational Methods in Enterprise Modeling and Simulation. How they are taught in different universities. Inverted curriculum concept of teaching of software engineering
- Human and Cognitive Aspects of Modeling
- The use of AI (e.g. language models like Chat GPT) in software engineering and modeling and how to use these new ideas and tools
- Modeling and simulation applied to support Agile methods and frameworks
- Information modeling as a support for Digital Twins
- Usage of information modeling and simulation in new areas and their application in fields other than software engineering or informational technologies
Synergy & Difference
While CAiSE is addressing information systems engineering, EOMAS tries to find analogies and the common theoretical background for the area of enterprise engineering and the area of software engineering from various perspectives ranging from formal mathematical approaches to soft skills, by which it tries to harmonize the disciplines of enterprise and software engineering. It approaches this task primarily from the modeling and simulation perspective, making strong emphasis on non-conventional methodologies and computerized support tools. This creates a valuable synergy as well as complementing the scope of CAiSE, BPMDS and EMMSAD.