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The nature of the enterprise engineering discipline

Author: De Vries, M ; Gerber, A ; Van der Merwe, A Date: May 2014 Enterprise engineering originated as a practice with most publications focusing on the practical facets without the underlying scientific foundation. Foundational works emerged from different authors in recent years, including Dietz, Hoogervorst ... Read more
A new paradigm for continuous alignment of business and IT: combining enterprise architecture modeling and enterprise ontology

Author: Hinkelmann, K ; Karagiannis, D ; Thoenssen, B ; Woitsch, R ; Gerber, A ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Aug 2015 The ability to react timeously to continuous and unexpected change is called agility and is an essential quality of the modern enterprise. Being agile has consequences for the engineering of enterprises and enterprise information systems. We ... Read more
A note on the translation of conceptual data models into description logics: disjointness and covering assumptions

Author: Casini, G ; Gerber, A ; Meyer, T Date: Oct 2012 Conceptual modeling is nowadays mostly done using languages such as Entity-Relationship (ER) Models, Unified Modeling Language (UML), and Object-Role Modeling (ORM). These models are used to depict the ontological organization of relevant ... Read more
Open source software migration: Best practices

Author: Molefe, Onkgopotse M ; Fogwill, T ; Gerber, A ; van der Merwe, A Date: 01 Sep 2010 Open source software (OSS) has gained prominence worldwide, largely due to cost savings and security considerations. This has caused a change in the IT sector and has led to the migration of desktops from proprietary to OSS. The problem for ... Read more
The potential role of open source software in overcoming digital poverty

Author: Kinyondo, J ; Van Biljon, J ; Gerber, A Date: Sep 2012 Developing countries, such as Tanzania, are characterized by digital poverty and a lack of information and communication technology (ICT) acceptance. The use of open source software (OSS) has been proposed as a potential strategy for addressing ... Read more
The potential role of open source software in overcoming digital poverty

Author: Kinyondo, J ; Van Biljon, J ; Gerber, A Date: Sep 2012 Developing countries, such as Tanzania, are characterized by digital poverty and a lack of information and communication technology (ICT) acceptance. The use of open source software (OSS) has been proposed as a potential strategy for addressing ... Read more
Practical implications of rapid development methodologies

Author: Gerber, A ; Van Der Merwe, A ; Alberts, R Date: Nov 2007 Rapid development methodologies are popular approaches for the development of modern software systems. The goals of these methodologies are the inclusion of the client into the analysis, design and implementation activities, as well as the ... Read more
Refining the operating model concept to enable systematic growth in operating maturity

Author: De Vries, M ; Van der Merwe, A ; Gerber, A ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Oct 2010 To stay competitive, enterprises of today need to rely on a sound foundation for execution that incorporates the infrastructure and digitised processes for automating a company’s core capabilities. Once this foundation has been established, ... Read more
Scenario testing using formal ontologies

Author: Harmse, HF ; Britz, K ; Gerber, A ; Moodley, D Date: Sep 2014 One of the challenges in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is to ensure that the requirements that drive the development of a software system are correct. However, establishing unambiguous and error-free requirements is not a trivial ... Read more
A social representations analysis of design science research

Author: Naidoo, R ; Van der Merwe, A ; Gerber, A ; Hevner, A Date: Jul 2015 Compared to positivist survey and interpretive case study research, design science research (DSR) is a relatively novel and unfamiliar research paradigm within the computing field in South Africa. In light of recent interest in the DSR paradigm, ... Read more
Technologies for conceptual modelling and intelligent query formulation

Author: Alberts, R ; Britz, K ; Gerber, A ; Halland, K ; Meyer, T ; Pretorius, L Date: Nov 2008 The aim of the project is to devise and evaluate algorithms, methodologies, techniques and interaction paradigms to build a tool for conceptual modelling and query management of complex data repositories based on a framework with solid formal ... Read more
Towards the formalisation of the TOGAF Content Metamodel using ontologies

Author: Gerber, A ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Jun 2010 Metamodels are abstractions that are used to specify characteristics of models. Such metamodels are generally included in specifications or framework descriptions. A metamodel is for instance used to inform the generation of enterprise ... Read more
Using the interaction model to identify replication potential between business units

Author: De Vries, M ; Van der Merwe, A ; Kotzé, Paula ; Gerber, A Date: Sep 2011 Enterprise engineering is an enterprise design methodology that uses a process to create an organised whole, while mastering complexity. Dietz proposes an organisation theorem that reduces complexity by representing the heterogeneous enterprise ... Read more

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