A Case-Based Reasoning Framework for Enterprise Model Buildi

Enterprise model development is essentially a labour-intensive exercise. Human experts depend heavily on prior experience when they are building new models making it a natural domain to apply Case Based Reasoning techniques. Through the provision of model

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Enterprise model development is essentially a labour-intensive exercise. Human experts depend heavily on prior experience when they are building new models making it a natural domain to apply Case Based Reasoning techniques. Through the provision of model

ACase-BasedReasoningFrameworkforEnterprise

ModelBuilding,SharingandReusing

JessicaChen-Burger,DaveRobertson,JustineStaderInformaticsResearchReportEDI-INF-RR-0022DIVISIONofINFORMATICS

Arti cialIntelligenceApplicationsInstituteInstituteforRepresentationandReasoning

June2000

ECAI’2000

Abstract:

Enterprisemodeldevelopmentisessentiallyalabour-intensiveexercise.HumanexpertsdependheavilyonpriorexperiencewhentheyarebuildingnewmodelsmakingitanaturaldomaintoapplyCaseBasedReasoningtechniques.Throughtheprovisionofmodelbuildingknowledge,automatictestinganddesignguidancecanbeprovidedbyrule-basedfacilities.Exploringtheseopportunitiesrequiresusnotonlytodeterminewhichformsofknowledgearegenericandthereforere-usable,butalsohowthisknowledgecanbeusedtoprovideusefulmodelbuildingsupport.ThispaperpresentsourexperiencesinidentifyingandclassifyingtheknowledgewhichexistsinIBM’sBSDMBusinessModelsandapplyingAItechniques,CBRandRule-Basedreasoningtogetherwithasymbolicsimulator,toprovidemorecompletesupportthroughouttheenterprisemodeldevelopmentlifecycle.

Keywords:EnterpriseModelling,ModelDevelopmentLifeCycle,CaseBasedReasoning,BusinessModelling,Pro-cessModelling,KnowledgeManagement,BSDM,FormalMethod.Copyrightc2000byTheUniversityofEdinburgh.AllRightsReserved

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Enterprise model development is essentially a labour-intensive exercise. Human experts depend heavily on prior experience when they are building new models making it a natural domain to apply Case Based Reasoning techniques. Through the provision of model

ACase-BasedReasoningFrameworkforEnterprise

ModelBuilding,SharingandReusing

Yun-HehChen-BurgerandDavidRobertsonandJussiStader

Abstract.Enterprisemodeldevelopmentisessentiallyalabour-intensiveexercise.HumanexpertsdependheavilyonpriorexperiencewhentheyarebuildingnewmodelsmakingitanaturaldomaintoapplyCaseBasedReasoningtechniques.Throughtheprovisionofmodelbuildingknowledge,automatictestinganddesignguidancecanbeprovidedbyrule-basedfacilities.Exploringtheseopportunitiesrequiresusnotonlytodeterminewhichformsofknowledgearegenericandthereforere-usable,butalsohowthisknowledgecanbeusedtoprovideusefulmodelbuildingsupport.ThispaperpresentsourexperiencesinidentifyingandclassifyingtheknowledgewhichexistsinIBM’sBSDMBusinessModelsandapplyingAItechniques,CBRandRule-Basedreasoningtogetherwithasymbolicsimulator,toprovidemorecompletesupportthroughouttheenterprisemodeldevelopmentlifecycle.

Key-wordsEnterpriseModelling,ModelDevelopmentLifeCycle,CaseBasedReasoning,BusinessModelling,ProcessModelling,KnowledgeManagement,BSDM,FormalMethod.

1Introduction

ThemaintaskofBSDM’sBusinessModellingistoidentifytwocon-ceptualcomponents:entitiesanddependencies.Entitiesarethingsthatabusinessneedstomanageanddependenciesaretherelation-shipsbetweenthesethings.Certainkindsofscenariosorrelation-shipsbetweenentitiesarecommontomanybusinesses.Hence,onewouldexpectthatthecorrespondingBSDMBusinessModelmapsre ectthesecommonalities.

Inpractice,IBMprovidesacatalogueofsuchgenericentitymod-els[8]:someofthemarestandardandexamplemodelsfromthemethodandsomeofthemwerespeci callydevelopedforselectedindustries.Providedwiththesegenericmodels,BSDMpractition-ershelpclientsbuildtheirbusinessmodelbyusingthisinformationimplicitlyorexplicitly.ForBSDMconsultancy,King[9]suggestedthreepossiblewaysofre-usinggeneric/knownmodelswhenaddress-inganewproblemdomain.

Back-PocketApproach:theclientsaremadeawareoftheexistenceofthesegenericmodels,buttheyareonlyusedtosupportcon-sultancy.Theclientwillseelittleornoneofthegenericmodel.Aconsultantkeepsthesegenericmodelsatthebackofhis/hermindandtailorsthemtotheclients’specialrequirements.

Enterprise model development is essentially a labour-intensive exercise. Human experts depend heavily on prior experience when they are building new models making it a natural domain to apply Case Based Reasoning techniques. Through the provision of model

formalisedtoprovidecoherentandcomprehensivesupportthrough-outthemodeldevelopmentlifecycle.Itconsiderstwoissues:issuchknowledgegenericandreusable,andhowcanthisknowledgebeusedtoprovideautomaticsupport.Thepaper rstdescribeshowCaseBasedReasoningtechniquescanbeusedtoprovideacommonplatformforknowledgesharing.Itthenpresentstowhichextentthisknowledgecanbeformalisedandprovideassistanceformodelbuild-ingactivities.

2TheModellingSupportFramework

of a business model development.

Figure1.ArchitectureofGenericModelAdvisor

Figure1showsthemodellingframeworkwhichprovidesauto-maticfacilitiestosupporttheiterativeplan-build-test-re nemodel-lingdevelopmentlifecycleasshowninFigure2.

Figure2.ThePlan-Build-Test-Re nedevelopmentcycle

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