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PReCISE Day '07, December 12th, 2007, Namur, Belgium

Keynotes

Prof. François Vernadat
LGIPM, University of Metz, France
European Commission, DIGIT, Luxemburg

Enterprise Architectures: From Concepts to Applications
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is foundational for proper governance and management of modern organisations. The talk will report on the author's experience using different EA Frameworks in industry or in a large government organisation. It shows that benefits of EA can exist at the local level (e.g. business process review and assessment, reengineering or management of change) as well as at the global level (e.g. strategic planning and IT governance, core business process cartography, IT assets management or risk management). A special focus will be paid to IT alignment to business needs. It is essential that maintenance of the EA, although centralised in a single repository, relies on a decentralised organisation in which process owners, application owners, information resource managers and system managers are involved. In terms of research and development, development of such enterprise repositories is still a challenge.
Prof. Alain Abran
École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Québec, Canada

The emergence of Software Engineering as a new Engineering discipline
Traditional engineering disciplines took centuries to evolve and become recognized as engineering disciplines. And these engineering disciplines have developed knowledge and practices that provide to the public the confidence that they can safely use engineering devices and related products. Now, with the rapid evolution of technology and of technology-related knowledge, there is a plethora of claims of new knowledge areas as engineering disciplines. But, are these claims a sufficiently sound basis upon which to build and rely on a new engineering discipline? Should you entrust your own life and society's safety to the artifacts built only by highly specialized researchers? This presentation is devoted to the foundations upon which engineering disciplines are built, structured and integrated within the framework of a modern society. The presentation also includes an overview of the SWEBOK project which contributed to the development of the consensus on software engineering as a bona fide engineering discipline.
Prof. John Mylopoulos
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Trento, Italy

A Research Agenda for the Days of Software Agents
There is an ongoing paradigm shift in Software Engineering from object-orientation to agent-orientation. We review some of the reasons for this, and briefly overview the state-of-the-art in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). We then sketch some threads of long-term research and -- where available -- present preliminary results from our own work. The research reported is the result of collaborations with colleagues at the Universities of Toronto, Trento and a number of other academic institutions.
Prof. Andreas Opdahl
University of Bergen, Norway

Ontology-Supported Language Interoperability - The UEML Approach
Emerging information and communication technologies are increasingly model-driven. Unfortunately, they are driven by models expressed using languages that are often not interoperable. Instead of producing more adaptable and integrated ICT solutions, model-driven technologies therefore run the risk of reinforcing existing interoperability problems as different information systems evolve driven by incommensurable models. The presentation describes the design of an intermediate language for enterprise modelling - the Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) - a language that aims to support integrated use of enterprise and IS models expressed in different languages.