Masterstudium Business Informatics - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

SBI/MO2 - e-Business Modeling
ECTS-Credits: 6.0
Summary: This module focuses on model-driven development of solutions for e-business
partnerships. Thereby, the module investigates on methodologies and techniques on the
dierent levels of an e-business partnership and the integration of these levels: (1) the
value perspective manifested by a business model, (2) the process ow perspective manifested
by choreographies among the parties, and (3) the execution perspective manifested
by the deployment artifacts. A lecture series is accompanied by practical courses where
the students have to demonstrate their skills by presenting solutions for given examples
and develop a model-driven solution for a practical problem spanning all the dierent
layers of inter-organizational systems for e-business.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
Skills:
• Overview of the dierent aspects of building an inter-organizational system for an
e-business partnership
• Understanding of current state of the art in major theories, principles, and concepts
for describing an inter-organizational e-business system
• Qualication to adopt and extend existing modeling languages to domain specic
needs
• Developing domain specic languages for e-business
• Ability to apply the business knowledge and understanding to describe interorganizational
systems
Competences:
• Formulating e-business related positions and problem solutions interfacing the scopes
of domain experts and computer scientists
• Self-assessment the own skills and boundaries
• Ability to critique the own work
Syllabus: Introduction into inter-organizational systems for e-business; languages for
business models; languages for inter-organizational business processes (i.e., choreographies);
languages for business document models; transformation approaches between
choreographies and intra-organizational processes; transformation to deployment artifacts
(SOA and/or workow systems)
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