Representing Organizational Competencies (2008)
Artur Caetano, João Pombinho, José Tribolet
Business activities within the organization are performed by a number of human or automated actors. For the organization to adapt to internal or external changes it must be able to understand how and...
USING ROLES TO SPECIFY BUSINESS OBJECT COLLABORATIONS (2008)
Artur Caetano, António Rito Silva, José Tribolet
Role-based business process modeling deals with separating the universe of process modeling into different areas of concern by describing how business objects relate to each other during...
Pedro Sousa, Artur Caetano, André Vasconcelos, Carla Pereira, José Tribolet
This chapter describes the key concepts for modeling the organization’s enterprise architecture using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Enterprise architecture consists on defining and...
Modeling Organizations: The “Operating Systems ” metaphor (2008)
Marielba Z, Artur Caetano, Sofia Pinto, José Tribolet
Abstract. In this paper we propose and discuss an organizational model to describe the execution of business activities. This model offers a dynamic, actor-centered, context-based and business...
A Role-Based Framework for Business Process Modeling (2008)
Artur Caetano, Marielba Zacarias, António Rito Silva, José Tribolet
Business objects are object-oriented representations of the concepts of interest in an organization, such as activities, resources and actors. Business objects collaborate with one another in order...
Modeling contexts for business process oriented knowledge support (2005)
Marielba Zacarias, Artur Caetano, Sofia Pinto, José Tribolet
Abstract. While performing knowledge driven tasks, people at organizations spend time searching the required support information. In order to effectively support knowledge driven tasks, information...
Tribolet, A framework for modeling strategy, business processes and information systems (2001)
André Vasconcelos, Artur Caetano, João Neves, Pedro Sinogas, Ricardo Mendes, José Tribolet
In order to continuously improve its knowledge and to identify problems and possible solutions, an organization requires understanding the way business is aligned with the organizational strategy and...
Unified Resource Modelling: (2001)
Integrating Knowledge Into, João Neves, André Vasconcelos, Artur Caetano, José Tribolet, Pedro Sinogas, ...
Figure 2 - Types of resources The resource meta-model defines four resource types: Physical entity with material reality that occupies a volume of space like raw materials, parts, etc.
Understanding Strategy: a Goal Modeling Methodology (2001)
Ricardo Mendes, Andre Vasconcelos, Artur Caetano, Joao Neves, Pedro Sinogas, Jose Tribolet, ...
This paper introduces advances to the topic of business goal modeling. The major guidelines to the presented work are the increasing of representational power of goal models, the introduction of goal...
Business Processes Extensions to UML Profile for Business Modeling (2001)
Pedro Sinogas, Andre Vasconcelos, Artur Caetano, Joao Neves, Ricardo Mendes, Jose Tribolet
In today's highly competitive global economy, the demand for high quality products manufactured at low costs with shorter cycle times has forced various industries to consider new product...
Representing Business Strategy through Goal Modeling (2001)
Ricardo Mendes, Andre Vasconcelos, Artur Caetano, Joao Neves, Pedro Sinogas, Jose Tribolet
This paper focuses on the representation of business strategy through goal modeling. Traditional approaches to goal modeling focus on capturing the business goals into an accurate representation....
Artur Caetano, António Rito, Silva José, Tribolet João, Neves Pedro Sinogas
This paper presents the research perspective of INESC’s Organizational Engineering Center and the Software Engineering Group regarding the modeling and design of adaptable enterprise computing...
Immune system simulation through a complex adaptive system model (2000)
António Grilo, Artur Caetano, Agostinho Rosa
Abstract. Evolutionary algorithms and cellular automata are two computational approaches to model complex adaptive systems. Here is described an immune system simulator that uses a cellular automaton...