Alain Wegmann

Full Professor
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Fields of expertise
Mission
Research, teaching and consulting in systemic methods for strategic thinking, enterprise architecture and requirements engineering.Biography
Alain Wegmann joined EPFL in 1996. His interests are in techniques to better align business and IT. He developed, with his group and partners, the SEAM methods: SEAM for business (strategic thinking), SEAM for enterprise architecture (business/IT alignment) and SEAM for software (IT). The originality of SEAM is in the integration of generic systems thinking principles into discipline-specific methods. This integration has three benefits: (1) the possibility to relate the different disciplines (by having common systemic principles); (2) the capability to leverage on discipline-specific knowledge (by using the vocabulary and the heuristics of each discipline) and (3) to be more efficient in solving problems (by benefiting from the problem solving techniques developed in systems thinking). SEAM is currently applied in master courses and consulting. Consulting is done for start-ups developing their business and technology strategies and for large companies having service-oriented architecture projects.Prior to joining EPFL, Alain Wegmann worked for 14 years with Logitech in software development/engineering management (Switzerland, Taiwan, US), manufacturing (Taiwan) and marketing (US). When he left Logitech, Alain Wegmann was engineering vice-president and marketing director for large accounts.
ANNOTATED BIBLIO
1. (Academic) Overview of the SEAM method:This paper presents the foundations behind SEAM. In particular, it introduces the systemic modeling paradigm on which SEAM is built. Reading this paper is useful for people who want to understand the paradigm (i.e. set of principles) underlying SEAM. However, it is not necessary to read this paper to use SEAM.
On the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM)
Wegmann, Alain
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems p.483-490 , 2003
2. Example of SEAM for Business:
This paper illustrates the use of SEAM for Business to analyze the WWW communication strategy of a consulting company. This illustrates how SEAM can be applied to model the relations to the customers as well as the business strategies. This model can then drive, for example, the redesign of the company web site.
Early Requirements and Business-IT Alignment with SEAM for Business
Wegmann, Alain; Julia, Philippe; Regev, Gil; Perroud, Olivier; Rychkova, Irina
15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, New Delhi, India, October 15-19th, 2007
3. Example of SEAM for Enterprise Architecture:
This paper illustrates the use of SEAM for EA in the context of a company that needs to align the business and the IT strategies. We present an enterprise model that spans from business down to IT. Such models are used in consulting and in teaching. The second paper presents our course on this topic.
Business-IT Alignment with SEAM for Enterprise Architecture
Wegmann, Alain; Regev, Gil; Rychkova, Irina; Lê, Lam-Son ; De La Cruz, José Diego; Julia, Philippe
11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007), Annapolis, Maryland, 15-19 October 2007
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Teaching Enterprise and Service-Oriented Architecture in Practice
Wegmann, Alain; Regev, Gil; de la Cruz, José Diego; Lê, Lam-Son; Rychkova, Irina
Journal of Enterprise Architecture, vol. N/A, num. N/A (2007), p. N/A, 2007
4. Example of SEAM for Software:
This paper illustrates how SEAM can be used to model a software architecture. We present the SEAM model of the PetShopStore (case study intially used to document J2EE architectures).
From Platform-Independent to Platform-Specific Models Using SEAM: J2EE Pet Store
Irina Rychkova; Regev, Gil; Wegmann, Alain
11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007), Annapolis, Maryland, 15-19 October 2007
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CURRENT WORK
Development of methods and tools for "strategic thinking" and "business / IT alignment". The current research topics are: service level management, alignment of business and IT strategies, IT systems to support coopetitive strategies, and integration of service/goal/process models. The research is currently funded by EPFL, SNF and industrial partners.EXPERTISE
Marketing, enterprise architecture, software engineering, system thinking, requirements engineering.Publications
Infoscience publications
Coopetition-based business models: The case of Amazon.com
Industrial Marketing Management. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.11.005.Experiential learning approach for requirements engineering education
Requirements Engineering. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s00766-009-0084-x.Modeling Service-Level Requirements: a Constancy Perspective
2009. The 17th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'09), Atlanta, Georgia, August 31-September 4, 2009. DOI : 10.1109/RE.2009.39.Where do Goals Come From: the Underlying Principles of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering
2005. 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’05), Paris, France, 29 Aug.-2 Sept. 2005. p. 353-362.On the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM)
2003. p. 483-490.Infoscience
The Role of Invariants in the Co-evolution of Business and Technical Service Specification of an Enterprise
2013. 6th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2013), Riga, Latvia, November 6-7, 2013. p. 183-192.A Situated Approach to Systems Based Modeling of Services
2013. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Manchester, ENGLAND, OCT 13-16, 2013. p. 4421-4426. DOI : 10.1109/Smc.2013.754.A Philosophical Foundation for Business and IT Alignment in Enterprise Architecture with the Example of SEAM
2013. Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, July 8-10, 2013. p. 131-139.Business and IT Design with SEAM: An Illustration with the PhD Hiring Process at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2013. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2013), Manchester, 13-16 October 2013. p. 1938-1943. DOI : 10.1109/SMC.2013.333.Requirements modeling in SEAM: The example of a car crash management system
2013. 2013 International Comparing *Requirements* Modeling Approaches Workshop (CMA@RE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 16, 2013. p. 25-30. DOI : 10.1109/CMA-RE.2013.6664181.Towards the Definition, Implementation and Communication of an IT Strategy: The Case of IT Strategy at EPFL
2013. The 8th International Workshop on Business/IT-Alignment and Interoperability (BUSITAL), as part of the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), Valencia, Spain, June 17-21, 2013. p. 99-110. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-38490-5_8.The Integration of an RE Method and AHP: A Pilot Study in a Large Swiss Bank
2013. The 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15th -19th, 2013. p. 308-313.Value Map: A Diagnostic Framework to Improve Value Creation and Capture in Service Systems
2013. The 2nd International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, July 8-10, 2013. p. 106-120.On the Situated Semantics of Service Systems
2013. IEEE International Conference on Service-oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, December 13-16, 2013.A Cognitive Reference Based Model for Learning Compositional Hierarchies with Whole-Composite Tags
2013. International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR-IC3K), Vilamoura, Algarve Portugal, September 19-22, 2013.The influence of genomic context on mutation patterns in the human genome inferred from rare variants
Genome Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1101/gr.154971.113.What We Can Learn about Business Modeling from Homeostasis
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-37478-4_1.Problem Structuring with the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Method
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5626.Simulation-Driven Approach for Business Rules Discovery
2013. CAiSE workshop - BUSITAL (8th International Workshop on Business/IT Alignment and Interoperability), Valencia, Spain, June 17-21, 2013.Hierarchy-oriented modeling of enterprise architecture using reference-model of open distributed processing
Computer Standards & Interfaces. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.csi.2012.01.008.A Model-Driven Environment for Service Design, Simulation and Prototyping
2013. 4th International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences, Porto, Portugal, February 6-8, 2013.Revisiting Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering with a Regulation View
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-29788-5_4.Modeling Value Creation and Capture in Service Systems
2012. 3rd International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences. p. 155-169.From Composites to Service Systems: The Role of Emergence in Service Design
2012. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, COEX, Seoul Korea, October 14-17, 2012.From Business Services to IT Services by Capturing Design Decisions
2012. 2nd International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, Geneva, Switzerland, July 4-6, 2012.Modeling an Emergency Service System for a Hospital Network
2012. Third International Conference on Exploring Service Science, Geneva, Switzerland, February 15-17, 2012. p. 73-86.A Systemic Approach to Multi-Party Relationship Modeling
Communications in Computer and Information Science, CCIS. 2012.Aligning Value and Implementation in Service Design: A Systemic Approach
International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology. 2012. DOI : 10.4018/jssmet.2012010102.On Viable Service Systems: Developing a Modeling Framework for Analysis of Viability in Service Systems
2011. 2nd International Conference on Exploring Services Science, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, Feb 16-18, 2011. p. 30-41.REGULATION, THE INVISIBLE PART OF THE GOAL ORIENTED REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING ICEBERG
2011. First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 27 – 28, 2011. p. 42-50.Business/IT Alignment in Practice: Lessons Learned From a Requirements Project at P&G
2011. 6th International Workshop on BUSinness/IT ALignment and Interoperability (BUSITAL 2011), London, June 20 2011. p. 93-101.A Developing World Perspective on the Design of Wireless Enabled Humanitarian Relief Services
2011. International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief (ACWR2011), Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, India, December 18-21 2011.Problem Structuring Methods in System Dynamics Modeling-A Cognitive Fit Perspective
2011. The 29th International Conference of The System Dynamics Society, Washington DC, USA, July 24 - 28, 2011.A Framework to Model and Analyze the WHY and the HOW of Coopetition
2011. 21st Nordic Workshop on Interorganizational Research, Vaasa, Finland, August 15-17, 2011.Coopetition In The Global Book Industry: The Case Of Amazon.Com’s Evolution
2011. 21st Nordic Workshop on Interorganizational Research, Vaasa, Finland, August 15-17, 2011.On the use of an Interoperability Framework in Coopetition Context
2011. 21st Nordic Workshop on Interorganizational Research, Vaasa, Finland, August 15-17, 2011.A Modeling Framework for Analyzing the Viability of Service Systems
International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology. 2011.Service Systems and Value Modeling from an Appreciative System Perspective
2011. Second International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences, Geneva Switzerland, 16-18 February 2011. p. 146-157.On Viable Service Systems: Developing a Modeling Framework for Analysis of Viability in Service Systems
2010. 2nd International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland. p. 30-41. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-21547-6_3.Speeding up Markov Chain Monte Carlo without Likelihood
2010A Systemic Approach for Enterprise Design
INFORMS Annual Meeting 2010, Austin, Texas, USA, November 7-10, 2010.A Systemic Approach for Modeling and Analysis of Coopetition
2010. 4th Workshop on Coopetition Strategy, Montpellier, France, June 17-18, 2010.Integrating System Dynamics and Enterprise Modeling to Address Dynamic and Structural Complexities of Choice Situations
2010. The 28th International Conference of The System Dynamics Society, Seoul, Korea, July 25 – 29, 2010.A Systemic Design of Regulation Enabling Ontology
2010. International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Valencia, Spain, 25-28 October, 2010.Systemic Service Design: Aligning Value and Implementation
2010. First International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland, 17-19 February, 2010. p. 150-164.A Systemic Approach for Designing Open Innovation Value Networks
2009. The 2nd ISPIM Innovation Symposium, New York, New York, USA, 6-9 December, 2009.Experiential learning approach for requirements engineering education
Requirements Engineering. 2009. DOI : 10.1007/s00766-009-0084-x.Modeling Service-Level Requirements: a Constancy Perspective
2009. The 17th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'09), Atlanta, Georgia, August 31-September 4, 2009. DOI : 10.1109/RE.2009.39.Toward a Service Management Quality Model
2009. 15th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (RefsQ'09), Amsterdam, June 8-9, 2009.Influence of specific growth rate on specific productivity and glycosylation of a recombinant avidin produced by a Pichia pastoris Mut(+) strain
Biotechnology And Bioengineering. 2008. DOI : 10.1002/bit.21565.Using Declarative Specifications in Business Process Design
International Journal of Computer Science & Applications. 2008.High-level design and analysis of business processes the advantages of declarative specifications
2008. Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Marrakech, Morocco, June 3-6, 2008.SeamCAD: a hierarchy-oriented modeling language and a computer-aided tool for entreprise architecture
Lausanne, EPFL, 2008. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4225.Declarative Specification and Alignment Verification of Services in ITIL
2008. The First International Workshop on Dynamic and Declarative Business Processes (DDBP) in the 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC2008), Muenchen, Germany, September 15-19, 2008, Muenchen, September 15-19, 2008. DOI : 10.1109/EDOCW.2008.28.Specifying Services for ITIL Service Management
2008. The International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing Consequences for Engineering Requirements (SOCCER'08) in the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’08), Barcleona, September 08-12, 2008.Requirements Engineering Education in the 21st Century, an Experiential Learning Approach
2008. The 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08), Barcelona, September 08-12, 2008.Augmenting the Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework with a Systemic Conceptualization
2008. The 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2008), Muenchen, September 15-19, 2008.Formal semantics for refinement verification of entreprise models
Lausanne, EPFL, 2008. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4210.High-Level Design and Analysis of Business Processes. The Advantages of Declarative Specifications
2008. The Second IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Marrakech, Morocco, 3-6 june, 2008.Visual contracts (VCs)
Lausanne, EPFL, 2008. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3972.Business Process Flexibility through the Exploration of Stimuli
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). 2008.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Communication Systems
Computer Science