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DETAILED SYLLABUS
Design and Implementation of Enterprise Modelling Tools
1. Information about the study program
1.1 University
1.2 Faculty
1.3 Department
1.4 Field of study
1.5 Program level (bachelor or
master)
1.6 Study program /
Qualification
Babeș Bolyai
Economic Sciences and Business Administration
Business Information Systems
Business Information Systems
Master
Business Modelling and Distributed Computing
2. Information about the subject
2.1 Subject title
Design and Implementation of Enterprise Modelling Tools
2.2 Course activities professor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Andrei Buchmann
2.3 Seminar activities
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Andrei Buchmann
professor
2.4 Year of
2.6 Type of
I 2.5 Semester II
Summative 2.7 Subject regime Optional
study
assessment
3. Total estimated time (teaching hours per semester)
3.1 Number of hours per week
3.4 Total number of hours in
the curriculum
out of which: 3.2
course
out of which: 3.5
56
course
4
2
28
3.3
seminar/laboratory
3.6
seminar/laboratory
2
28
Hour
s
Study based on textbook, course support, references and notes
40
Additional documentation in the library, through specialized databases and field activities 23
Preparing seminars/laboratories, essays, portfolios and reports
40
Tutoring
8
Assessment (examinations)
8
Others activities ...................................
0
3.7 Total hours for individual
119
study
3.8 Total hours per semester
175
3.9 Number of credits
7
Time distribution
4. Preconditions (if necessary)
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4.1 Curriculum
4.2 Skills
Not necessary
Basic programming skills
5. Conditions (if necessary)
5.1. For course
development
5.2. For seminar /
laboratory
development
Notebook, beamer, Internet connection
Computers with Internet connection
6. Acquired specific competences
Professional 
competences





Transversal 
competences
Knowledge about popular and established enterprise architecture frameworks
and their associated modelling languages
Knowledge about popular metamodelling environments
Knowledge about the theoretical foundations of metamodelling
The ability to design the notation, syntax and semantics of a domain-specific
modelling language
The ability to implement modelling tools based on a designed modelling
language
The ability to implement model-driven functionality in enterprise modelling
tools
Commitment to the specific roles and responsibilities within teams that are
developing enterprise information systems
7. Subject objectives (arising from the acquired specific competences)
7.1 Subject’s general objective

7.2 Specific objectives



Students must become familiar with the fundamental
principles of metamodelling and several environments for
modelling tool implementation;
Students must be able to design the metamodel of a
domain-specific enterprise modelling language;
Students must be able to implement a modelling language
in the form of a modelling tool using one of the
established metamodelling environments;
Students must become familiar with the concept of
modelling method and the development process for a
modelling method;
8. Contents
8.1 Course
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (1): Zachman, FEA
Teaching
Observations
methods
Lecture, open
1 lect.
discussion
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Lecture, open
1 lect.
discussion
Modelling Languages and Methods for Enterprise Systems (1):
Lecture, open
1 lect.
UML, Archimate
discussion
Modelling Languages and Methods for Enterprise Systems (2):
Lecture, open
1 lect.
ADONIS
discussion
Lecture,
Modelling Languages and Methods for Enterprise Systems (3):
open
1 lect.
SOM, COMVANTAGE
discussion
Metamodelling principles (1): Motivation, Abstraction layers in
Lecture, open
1 lect.
metamodelling
discussion
Metamodelling principles (2): The concept of modelling method, Lecture,
notation, syntax, semantics
open
1 lect.
discussion
Metamodelling principles (3): Modelling procedure and modelling Lecture, open
1 lect.
functionality
discussion
Metamodelling environments (1): MetaEdit+
Lecture, open
1 lect.
discussion
Metamodelling environments (2): EMF
Lecture, open
1 lect.
discussion
Metamodelling environments (3): ADOxx
Lecture, open
1 lect.
discussion
Lecture,
Metamodelling in ADOxx (1): Notation and syntax implementation
1 lect.
demonstration
Lecture,
Metamodelling in ADOxx (2): Semantics and functionality
open
1 lect.
implementation
discussion
Lecture, case
study,
The ComVantage case
demonstration, 1 lect.
open
discussion
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (2): TOGAF, SCOR
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References:
1. BOC Group, ADOxx metamodeling platform: http://adoxx.org
2. BOC Group. ADONIS Community Edition. http://www.adonis-community.com/
3. Bork, D. and Fill, H.-G. (2014). Formal Aspects of Enterprise Modeling Methods: A
Comparison Framework, 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS), 3400-3409.
4. Bork, D. and Sinz, E.J. (2013). Bridging the Gap From a Multi-View Modelling Method
to the Design of a Multi-View Modelling Tool, Enterprise Modelling and Information
Systems Architectures - An International Journal 8 (2), 25-41.
5. Chief Information Officers Council (1999). Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework.
http://www.enterprisearchitecture.info/Images/Documents/Federal%20EA%20Framework.pdf
6. Eclipse Modelling Framework. http://eclipse.org/modeling/emf/
7. MetaCase. MetaEdit+. http://www.metacase.com/products.html
8. Object Management Group. The UML resource page: http://www.uml.org/
9. OMILab ComVantage prototypes: http://omilab.org/web/comvantage.home
10. Open Group (2011). TOGAF® Enterprise Edition version 9.1,
http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
11. Open Group (2013). ArchiMate® 2.1 Specification,
http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/
12. Public documentation of the Comvantage FP7 project: http://comvantage.eu
13. Supply Chain Council. The SCOR Framework. http://www.apics.org/sites/apics-supplychain-council/merger-of-apics-and-supply-chain-council
14. The Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/egov_docs/common_approach_
to_federal_ea.pdf
15. Zachman, J.A. (1987). A framework for information systems architecture. IBM systems
journal 26 (3), 276-292.
Teaching
8.2 Seminar/laboratory
Observations
methods
Demonstrative example case
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Modelling with standards: UML, BPMN
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Enterprise modelling: ADONIS
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Enterprise modelling: SOM
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
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Enterprise modelling: COMVANTAGE
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Conceptualisation of non-standard modelling languages
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Design and implementation of syntactical aspects for a nonRunning
1 sem./lab.
standard modelling language
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Design and implementation of semantic aspects for a non-standard Running
2 sem./lab.
modelling language
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Design and implementation of functional aspects for a non-standard Running
2 sem./lab.
modelling language
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Analysis and extension of the ComVantage modelling method
Running
3 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
References:
1. BOC Group, ADOxx metamodeling platform: http://adoxx.org
2. BOC Group. ADONIS Community Edition. http://www.adoniscommunity.com/
3. Eclipse Modelling Framework. http://eclipse.org/modeling/emf/
4. MetaCase. MetaEdit+. http://www.metacase.com/products.html
5. OMILab ComVantage prototypes: http://omilab.org/web/comvantage.home
6. Open Group (2011). TOGAF® Enterprise Edition version 9.1,
http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
7. Open Group (2013). ArchiMate® 2.1 Specification,
http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/
8. Wood D., Linked Enterprise Data, Springer, 2010
9. Corroboration / validation of the subject’s content in relation to the expectations
coming from representatives of the epistemic community, of the professional
associations and of the representative employers in the program’s field.
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 The topics involved here have been a key element of recent EU research projects
(ComVantage) which are involved here as exemplary cases, as motivational background and
through the didactic inclusion of some of their public results
 The subject is a key component of emerging industrial paradigms such as Industry 4.0,
Factories of the Future and a pivotal topic for prestigious scientific conferences (POEM,
Models, ER etc.)
10. Assessment (examination)
Type of activity 10.1 Assessment criteria
10.2 Assessment methods
10.4 Course
Multiple choice test grid checking
knowledge on discussed concepts
Multiple choice quizz
10.5 Seminar/
laboratory
Assumed domain requirements

Language metamodel consistency
Compliance of modelling tool to the 
modelling language design
Evaluation of modelling
language
conceptualisation
Evaluation of modelling
tool implementation
10.3 Weight
in the final
grade
40%
30%
30%
10.6 Minimum performance standard
• Minimum 50% of points for the course component
• Minimum 50% of points for the seminar component
Date of filling
19.01.2015
Signature of the course professor
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Andrei Buchmann .
Date of approval by the department
28.01.2015..........................................
Signature of the seminar professor
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Andrei Buchmann.
Head of department’s signature
Prof. habil. Dr. Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi......................
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