Resource-oriented Consistency Analysis of Engineering Processes

Bernhard Bauer, Thomas Eisenbarth, Christoph Frenzel, Benjamin Honke

2012

Abstract

A number of popular engineering processes and methodologies emerged over the past years which attracted interest in research and industry. For process enactment, enterprises have to match requirements of engineering processes with existing resources. Therefore, it has to be analyzed if employees have sufficient skills or if infrastructure has sufficient capabilities to match the requirements of a situational process. Both, maintaining a skill and resource database and matching requirements against this database are an enormously challenging and time-consuming task. Additionally, this matching has to be carried out regularly as employees join and leave the company and skills change over time. Based upon a formal, logical base, we present an approach that combines ontological and metamodeling technical spaces and enables an automatic analysis of engineering processes regarding the existence of necessary resources.

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Bauer B., Eisenbarth T., Frenzel C. and Honke B. (2012). Resource-oriented Consistency Analysis of Engineering Processes . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-12-9, pages 206-211. DOI: 10.5220/0003984302060211


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@conference{iceis12,
author={Bernhard Bauer and Thomas Eisenbarth and Christoph Frenzel and Benjamin Honke},
title={Resource-oriented Consistency Analysis of Engineering Processes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={206-211},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003984302060211},
isbn={978-989-8565-12-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Resource-oriented Consistency Analysis of Engineering Processes
SN - 978-989-8565-12-9
AU - Bauer B.
AU - Eisenbarth T.
AU - Frenzel C.
AU - Honke B.
PY - 2012
SP - 206
EP - 211
DO - 10.5220/0003984302060211