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BIR 2024 Workshops and Doctoral Consortium
Ana-Maria Ghiran1, Anne Gutschmidt2
1 Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2 University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 22, 18059, Rostock, Germany
1
The International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIIR) is
dedicated to business informatics, business information systems and information systems. It aims
to support knowledge exchange between experienced and junior researchers, practitioners and
industry professionals by promoting studies at the intersection of business applications and
information systems engineering.
The 23rd BIR conference was organized by Prague University of Economics and Business, with
the central theme being Artificial Intelligence in Business informatics: Opportunities and
Challenges. The conference traditionally attracts co-located workshops which encourages
exchanging ideas and fosters collaborations on various topics related to business information
systems. This volume contains publications presented during the conference workshops and the
Doctoral Consortium:
• The 14th workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA) addresses various aspects of the
enterprise (e.g. organizational structures, strategies, architectures, business models, work
practices, processes, and IS/IT structures) in order to create alignment between business and
IT. The event received 10 submissions out of which it accepted 6 regular papers;
• The 9th workshop on Managed Complexity (ManComp) covers topics related to
complexity identification, representation, controlling and reduction. The event attracted 10
submissions, accepting 4 regular papers and 3 short papers;
• The 2nd workshop on Domain-specific Modeling Methods and Tools (OMiLAB-KNOW)
aims to stimulate knowledge exchange on the requirements, use, design decisions, tooling and
evaluations regarding domain-specific conceptual modeling methods. Although initiated by
the OMiLAB community of practice (http://omilab.org) the event welcomes also contributors
from other communities with a conceptual modeling focus. This year the event attracted a total
of 10 submissions and finally selected 5 regular papers and one short paper;
• The Doctoral Consortium of BIR 2024 provides an opportunity for PhD researchers to
present their doctoral research plan and current progress and to receive feedback and ideas
from senior researchers in Business Informatics acting as doctoral mentors. This year the
doctoral consortium received 4 submissions, all of them were selected for inclusion in the
proceedings: 2 regular papers and 2 short papers.
Each workshop was independently chaired and had its own international program committee
of experts who evaluated each submission with 2-4 reviews. A doctoral mentor evaluated and
supervised each doctoral paper submission.
Out of 34 initial submissions, this volume contains a total of 17 regular papers and 6 short
papers presented on the Workshops Day at BIR 2024.
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We would like to express our gratitude to the chairs initiating these satellite events, to their
program committees, to the authors who submitted their work for evaluation and to the hosts at
University of Economics Prague who included the Workshops Day in the BIR 2024 program.
September 2024
Ana-Maria Ghiran
Anne Gutschmidt
Preface: 14th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment
(BITA)
Ulf Seigerroth1, Kurt Sandkuhl1,2
1 Jönköping University, School of Engineering, Gjuterigatan 5, 55 111 Jönköping, Sweden
2 Rostock University, Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Einstein Str. 22, 18059 Rostock, Germany
2
A contemporary challenge for enterprises is to keep up with the pace of changing business
demands imposed on them in different ways. Today, there is an apparent demand for continuous
improvement and alignment in enterprises, but unfortunately, many organizations don't have the
proper instruments (methods, tools, patterns, best practices, etc.) to achieve this. Enterprise
modelling, enterprise architecture, and business process management are three areas belonging
to business informatics traditions, with the mission of improving business practice and business
and IT alignment (BITA). BITA is often manifested through the transition of an enterprise from
one state (AS-IS) into another improved state (TO-BE), i.e., a transformation of the enterprise and
its supporting IT into something that is regarded as better. Recent digitalization and
transformation developments have brought new dimensions to BITA, where BITA becomes
important in relation to smart products and smart business ecosystems. A continuous challenge
with BITA is to move beyond a narrow focus on one tradition or technology. There is a need to be
able to deal with the enterprise's multiple dimensions to create alignment between business and
IT. Examples of such dimensions are organizational structures, strategies, architectures, business
models, services, work practices, processes, and IS/IT structures.
This workshop aimed to bring together people who have an interest in BITA. We invited
researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to submit original results of their
completed or ongoing projects, and we also encourage a broad understanding of possible
approaches and solutions for BITA. As organizational practices of business and IT alignment also
are relevant for the research community, we included submissions of case study and experiences
papers.
The workshop received ten submissions, and after the review process, six of these submissions
were accepted for the workshop:
• Energy Management Systems in SME: State of Research and Methodical Considerations
• The Interplay Between Knowledge Management and the Social Dimension of Business IT
Alignment
• Integrating Digital and Physical Care for Post-Covid Rehabilitation
• A Systematic Literature Review of AI-enabled Predictive Analytics in Smart Grids
• Application of supervised machine learning models for card payment workflow
optimization
• Enterprise Architecture Management Value Creation Mechanisms.
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Informatics Research (BIR 2024), September 11-13, 2024, Prague, Czech Rep.
ulf.seigerroth@ju.se (U. Seigerroth); kurt.sandkuhl@uni-rostock.de (K. Sandkuhl)
0000-0002-5881-0669 (U. Seigerroth); 0000-0002-7431-8412 (K. Sandkuhl)
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Acknowledgements
The BITA PC chairs thank the organizing team of the BIR 2024 conference and the BIR 2024
workshop chairs for the excellent support for the BITA workshop. Furthermore, we dedicate
special thanks to the members of the international Program Committee for promoting the
workshop, their support in attracting submissions, and for providing excellent reviews of the
submissions. Without their committed work, BITA 2024 would not have been possible. Our
thanks also include the external reviewers supporting the paper selection process and the
authors of submissions and presenters at the workshop.
BITA Organization
Program Committee Chairs
• Ulf Seigerroth, University of Jönköping, Sweden
• Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany, and University of Jönköping, Sweden
Program Committee
• Erik Bergström, Jönköping University, Sweden
• Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy
• Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Björn Johansson, Linköping University, Sweden
• Joakim Kävrestad, Jönköping University, Sweden
• Christina Keller, Lund University, Sweden
• Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Hasan Koç, Berlin International University, Germany
• Michael Leyer, University of Marburg, Germany
• Andreas Martin, FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern, Switzerland
• Jens Myrup Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Kurt Sandkuhl, Rostock University, Germany
• Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping University, Sweden
• Nikolay Shilov, SPC RAS, Russia
• Alexander Smirnov, SPC RAS, Russia
• Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Wieslaw Wolny, University of Economics Katowice, Poland
• Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany
Workshop’s webpage:
https://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/veranstaltungen/selbst-
organisierte-workshops/bita-2023-1/
Preface: 9th Workshop on Managed Complexity
(ManComp)
Mārīte Kirikova1, Peter Forbrig2, Charles Møller3
1 Riga Technical University, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Systems Engineering, 6A Kipsalas Street, Riga, LV-
1048, Latvia
2 University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 22, 18059, Rostock, Germany
3 Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus University, Katrinebjergvej 89, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark
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Managing Complexity and ManComp as a workshop within the International Conference on
Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR) has come to its ninth edition. The topic has
a long tradition for algorithms and general problems. However, it is an important issue also in
Business Informatics domain.
The workshop focusses on approaches and methods for managing complexity in the domain
of applied informatics that may concern the interplay of systems and ecosystems of various sizes
and substances. Its purpose is to share and transfer knowledge on complexity identification,
representation, controlling and reduction as well as to exploit possible synergies in the
development of innovative complexity handling strategies, approaches, and methods.
The goal of the workshop is bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss
theoretical approaches or real-life case studies featuring success and/or failure stories in
managing complexity. Purpose of these discussions is to deepen the understanding of strategies,
approaches, and methods in managing complexity in enterprise and software and hardware
engineering. A cross-pollination of experiences in both domains is assumed.
This year the workshop consists of seven contributions. The first paper by Ksenija Lace and
Marite Kirikova “Simplifying road to defining a scientific problem and hypothesis through
gamified and storytelling-enhanced teaching of Requirements Engineering” addresses the
problem of implementing of gamified learning strategies within a Requirements Engineering
course to enhance student readiness for thesis projects.
The second paper, by Shashini Rajaguru, Björn Johansson and Gianluigi Viscusi “Users’
Understanding of Smart Meters in Sweden: An interpretive study” delves into the perceptions,
barriers, and concerns associated with smart meter usage, focusing on Sweden, where smart
meter deployment is mandated by the government.
The third paper, by Aritha Kumarasinghe and Marite Kirikova, “Ontology for Data Science
research results reuse” seeks to reduce the associated complexity of data science by proposing an
ontology that can be used to represent research project results, based on attributes, that are
meant to represent all conceivable aspects of a data science project.
The fourth paper, by Jarkko Nurmi and Ville Seppänen “How does the presentation mode of
Enterprise Architecture artifacts affect their use in decision-making?” hypothesizes that the
choice of presentation form significantly affects the value and usability of EA artifacts and argues
that more research should be devoted to understanding the best ways to communicate and use
complex architectural information in decision-making scenarios.
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Informatics Research (BIR 2024), September 11-13, 2024, Prague, Czech Rep.
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The fifth paper by Jöran Lindeberg, Martin Henkel and Eric-Oluf Svee “What complex adaptive
systems theory means for modelling of organizational rules” discusses how enterprise modelling
of organizational rules grounded in CAS theory will have a different focus than if grounded in
General Systems Theory.
The sixth paper by Victoria Klyukina “Modelling intangibles using EM: a meta-hierarchical
method in strategic resource analysis” proposes a meta-hierarchical modelling method for
intangibles, and to apply it in a real case example.
The seventh paper by Peter Forbrig and Anke Dittmar “Managing the complexity of business-
process models by personas, stories, and related modelling artifacts” argues for using stories to
propagate information. Additionally, the combined usage of modelling artefacts is demonstrated.
ManComp Organization
Program Committee Chairs:
• Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Peter Forbrig, Rostock University, Germany
• Charles Møller, Aalborg University, Denmark
Program Committee:
• Robert Andrei Buchmann, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
• Peter Forbrig, Rostock University, Germany
• Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Saulius Gudas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
• Igli Hakrama, Metropolitan Tirana University, Albania
• Ebba Hvannberg, Iceland University, Iceland
• Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Christophe Kolski, University Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Audrone Lupeikiene, Vilnus University, Lithuania
• Bartosz Marcinkowski, University of Gdansk, Poland
• Andrea Morichetta, University of Camerino, Italia
• Christian Märtin, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany
• Charles Møller, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Jacob Nørbjerg, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Malgorzata Pankowska, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
• Peteris Rudzajs, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
• Werner Schmidt, University of Applied Sciences Ingolstadt, Germany
• Chris Stary, JKU, Austria
• Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Iryna Zolotaryova, Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine
Workshop’s webpage:
https://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ManComp2024/
Preface: 2nd Workshop on Domain-specific modeling
methods and tools - OMiLAB nodes experience &
knowledge exchange (OMiLAB-KNOW)
Robert Andrei Buchmann1, Emanuele Laurenzi2
1 Babeș-Bolyai University, Strada Teodor Mihali, Nr. 58-60, 400591, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2 FHNW, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
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The OMILAB-KNOW workshop – “OMiLAB Nodes experience & knowledge exchange” on Domain-
specific Modeling Methods and Tools - was initiated by members of the OMiLAB community of
practice and had the 2nd installment during BIR 2024.
Workshop discussions are stimulated by the ongoing activities and experiences of nodes
within the OMiLAB network and community of practice (https://www.omilab.org/network/),
drawing from lessons learned in recent projects where modeling methods have played a pivotal
role. The typical outcomes from the network members include modeling tools, modeling method
components or extensions, model-driven artifacts, application cases for domain-specific
modeling, empirical and explorative evaluation strategies. Researchers and educators outside the
OMiLAB network who are active in knowledge engineering, enterprise modeling, and domain-
specific modeling are also encouraged to contribute to the workshop, particularly those with an
interest in the value of conceptual models and the diversity of modeling purposes they can serve.
Knowledge exchanges with other modeling-centric communities are thus expected to drive
debates reflecting diverse perspectives.
This year we received 10 artifact-centric papers, and each submission was reviewed by 2-4
reviewers. Five papers were accepted as full papers and one as short paper.
The paper “Design and development of an IoT system for audiovisual self-administered tests”
authored by Massimo Callisto De Donato, Flavio Corradini, Flavio Fabbrizi, Fabrizio Fornari and
Barbara Re, serves the larger Society 5.0 vision with an Internet of Things solution based on Node-
RED and low budget devices to support self-administration of certain health tests. The IoT
solution deployment is preceded by ideation based on OMiLAB’s design thinking installation.
IoT is also tackled as a modeling domain in “AOAME4FloWare: Ontology-based feature models
for context-aware configurations in IoT applications” by Arianna Fedeli, Martin Peraic, Emanuele
Laurenzi and Andrea Polini. The reported tool extends the AOAME (agile and ontology-aided)
modeling environment to accommodate feature models and tailor them for an ontology-assisted
contextualization of smart home installations.
AOAME is again used in the paper “An ontology-based meta-modelling approach for software
test cases” written by Nehemiah Mung'Au and Emanuele Laurenzi, to support the modeling and
semantic traceability of test cases and software testing procedures in a software projects
management context.
“Evaluation of the intuitiveness of MIoTA” by Benjamin Nast and Kurt Sandkuhl revisits a
previously introduced modeling method for air conditioning facilities and describes an evaluation
protocol that was applied for the current iteration of the modeling method and tool, inspired by
the SEQUAL quality assessment framework.
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Informatics Research (BIR 2024), September 11-13, 2024, Prague, Czech Rep.
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In “A modeling approach to cyber threat mitigation” the authors Andrei Chiș, Ionuț Stoica and
Ana-Maria Ghiran introduce an ADOxx-based implementation of a modeling language for
cyberthreat mitigation that incorporates concepts from data flow diagrams and the STRIDE
methodology and can generate security assessment scores by navigating diagrammatic design
decisions.
Data flow diagrams and threat models also play a key role in the short paper “Introducing
model-based tool support for applying zero-trust security for microservices at a bank” by Donald
Baldwin, Martin Henkel and Erik Perjons. The paper reports on a tool based on a knowledge
repository and supporting team communication, for the development of zero-trust system
architectures. The main features are overviewed and a bank case study showcases the tool
applicability.
We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers to the workshop as well as the
program committee for their informative feedback that helped polish the final versions of the
papers. We express our gratitude to the BIR 2024 conference organizers for hosting this event, to
the OMiLAB Community for promoting it and contributing with submissions, and of course to
OMiLAB NPO for the tooling and technical support that enabled the research shared during the
event.
OMILAB-KNOW Organization
Program Committee Chairs:
• Dr. Robert Buchmann, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
• Dr. Emanuele Laurenzi, FHNW, Switzerland
Program Committee:
• Andrei Chiș, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
• Ana-Maria Ghiran, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
• Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Adrian Florea, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
• Fabrizio Fornari, University of Camerino, Italy
• Anne Gutschmidt, University of Rostock, Germany
• Knut Hinkelmann, FHNW, Switzerland
• Florian Johannsen, Hochschule Schmalkalden, Germany
• Arkadiusz Jurczuk, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
• Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
• Moonkun Lee, JeonBuk National University, Republic of Korea
• Andrea Morichetta, University of Camerino, Italy
• Cristina Osman, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
• Fabiana Pirola, University of Bergamo, Italy
• Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
• Wilfrid Utz, OMILAB NPO, Germany
• Herwig Zeiner, Joanneum Research Graz, Austria
Workshop’s webpage:
https://bir2024-ws.omilab.org/
Preface: Doctoral Consortium
Björn Johansson1, Filip Vencovský2
1 Linköping University SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
2 Prague University of Economics, W. Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67, Prague 3, Czech Republic
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The Doctoral Consortium, held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on
Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2024), serves as a platform for doctoral
students to discuss their Ph.D. research work. The consortium offers participants the opportunity
to present their research proposals, engage in discussions with peers and experienced
researchers, and receive valuable feedback to improve their research proposals and,
consequently, their doctoral theses.
In addition to presenting their work, participants in the Doctoral Consortium can identify
research issues related to their interests and exchange knowledge with fellow doctoral students.
The proposals submitted to the consortium reflect the current status of each author’s Ph.D.
project. All submissions were reviewed by senior researchers in business informatics and
evaluated based on the following criteria: relevance, originality, appropriate research
methodology, research contribution, and clarity. This year, we are pleased to have accepted four
contributions for publication. The participating students are from Czechia and Sweden.
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Doctoral Consortium Organization
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
• Björn Johansson, Linköping University, Sweden
• Filip Vencovsky, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Rep.
Doctoral Consortium Faculty Members
• Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Emanuele Laurenzi, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern
Switzerland
• Knut Hinkelmann, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
• Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Francisco J Lopez-Pellicer, Universidad Zaragoza, Spain