Fakultät für Informatik Technische Universität München A Visual Tool for Conflict Resolution in EA Repositories Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, Jul Tobias Schrade Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis) wwwmatthes.in.tum.de 1Bachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, © sebis

Agenda © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,  Introduction  Research Objective and Questions  Approach Meta information model Mock-ups  Timeline  References

Introduction © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,

Research Objective and Questions Research Objective: Facilitate model conflict tasks with visualizations to provide an easy understanding of the given model and respective conflicts; enhance the process of solving the conflicts with relevant background information and change memory. Q1: “How to provide (interactive) visual means to communicate and resolve model conflicts?” Q1.1: “Which (EA) visualizations are scalable for large (<=1K Objects) EA models?” Q1.2: “Which layout algorithms are suitable to visualize EA model conflicts?” © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,

Approach © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,  Meta information model

Approach © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,  Mock-ups Legend Defined Concept Undefined Concept Derived Concept # of objects Cardinalities Attribute Type Attribute Name Object Type 80 %20 %

Approach © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,  Mock-ups

Approach © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,  Mock-ups Instance A2 Instance A1 Instance A3 Instance A4 Instance A5 Instance A6 Instance A7 Instance A8

Approach © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,  Mock-ups Instance A6 Instance A1 Instance A7

Approach © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation,  Mock-ups Attribute : „Attribute A1“ Infrastructure : Instance B1, Instance C1 Instance A1 Attribute : „Attribute C1“ Infrastructure : Instance E1 Instance C1 Attribute : „Attribute B1“ Infrastructure : Instance D1 Instance B1 ! Name: „Instance A4“ => „Instance A1“ Name: „Instance A4“ => „Instance A3“ Own Name: „…………………..“ ! Instance A6 Instance A1 Instance A7 Legend Conflict No Conflict

Timeline © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, Jul. 15 Official Start, Literature research, other approaches Aug. 15 Begin implementation Sep. 01 Start to write thesis Dec. 15 Finish thesis

References © sebisBachelor’s Thesis kick-off presentation, [Fa13] Farwick, M., Hauder, M., Roth, S., Matthes, F., Breu, R.: Enterprise Architecture Documentation: Empirical Analysis of Information Sources for Automation, 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 46), Maui, Hawaii, [Ro13a] Roth, S., Hauder, M., Farwick, M., Matthes, F., Breu, R.: Enterprise Architecture Documentation: Current Practices and Future Directions, 11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), Leipzig, Germany, [Ro13b] Roth, S., Matthes, F.: Future Research Topics in Enterprise Architectures Evolution Analysis, Design for Future (DFF) Workshop, [Ro13c] Roth, S., Hauder, M., Matthes, F.: Evolution of Enterprise Architecture Models through Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitating Conflict Resolution with Tasks, MRT Workshop, Miami, 2013 (in submission) [HMR12] Hauder, M., Matthes, F., Roth, S.: Challenges for Automated Enterprise Architecture Documentation. In: 7th International Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR), Barcelona, Spain, [Wie12] Wieland, K.. Langer, P., Seidl, M., Wimer, M., Kappel, G.: Turning Conflicts into Collaboration, Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, tba:1-52, 2012

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