Track Description

It appears that “digital” is all around us, both in our personal and work lives. The growing popularity of approaches like model-driven development and low-code development, which involve code generation, has made modelling more relevant than ever in information systems development.

Professionals have sometimes been reluctant to create models as part of their work but that attitude is slowly changing. In agile information systems development, the traditional reluctance to use software models has been replaced by a more practical approach, recognizing the value that models derived from user stories and other requirements artefacts can provide in ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality systems. Data scientists are also increasingly using domain models to make sense of the data in their pipelines, which are used to build, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models. Overall, there is a renewed appreciation for the role of information system models, including conceptual or domain models, requirements models, and software models, leading to the question of how these modelling approaches can be improved or innovated to better support new approaches to information systems development.

Track Chairs

Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
Bas van Gils, Antwerp Management School, Belgium

Papers

A Review of Core Operational Business-IT Alignment

Pascal André, Nantes University - CNRS / LS2N, F-44000 Nantes, France
Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes University - CNRS / LS2N, F-44000 Nantes, France
Ali Benjilany, Nantes University - CNRS / LS2N, F-44000 Nantes, France
Hugo Bruneliere, IMT Atlantique - CNRS / LS2N, F-44000 Nantes, France

Classification Methodology for Architectures in Information Systems: A Statistical Converging Technique

Qishan Yang, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Mouzhi Ge, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany
Markus Helfert, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

DEMO Models Based Automatic Smart Contract Generation: A Case in Logistics Using Hyperledger

David Aveiro, ARDITI - Regional Agency for the Development of Research Technology and Innovation & NOVA-LINCS Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
Leonardo Abreu, ARDITI - Regional Agency for the Development of Research Technology and Innova- tion & University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
Duarte Pinto, ARDITI - Regional Agency for the Development of Research Technology and Innova- tion & University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
Vítor Freitas, ARDITI - Regional Agency for the Development of Research Technology and Innova- tion & University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

Introducing the Sectoral Enterprise Architecture Framework (SEAF)

Carolina Bandeira, University of Coimbra, CISUC, DEI, Coimbra, Portugal
João Barata, University of Coimbra, CISUC, DEI, Coimbra, Portugal
Nuno Roque, Portuguese Association of the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Lisbon, Portugal

Rapid Production of Enterprise Applications in a Low-Code Environment: Comparing the Itlingo-ASL and Powerapps Metamodels

Patrícia Borges Vilão, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal