SmartRoads 2.0

ScenWise is an innovative company that specializes in data science revolving around traffic management. ScenWise strives to use the newest and best technologies and practices when it comes to web applications, data science and traffic management. The reason for this is that they provide tools to analyse and visualise a variety of situations that...

Artificial Intelligence in Customs Risk Management for e-Commerce: Design of a Web-crawling Architecture for the Dutch Customs Administration

The last decade saw the rise of e-commerce trade and the shift of the manufacturing industry to the emerging economies, China first of all. In this context, the European Customs Authorities experienced an explosion of small parcels coming from e-commerce websites, often from China, and faced difficulties to detect fiscal frauds and security...

Finding faulty components in a dynamic distributed system at runtime

This document describes the research performed on fault isolation in dynamic distributed systems at runtime. An existing Spectrum-based Multiple Fault Localization approach is used as the basis for fault isolation, but is adapted and optimized so it can be used for online diagnosis. The result is an algorithm, coined AIMBACH, which finds the...

A Methodology for Assessing the Benefits of Software as a Service: Perspectives and benefits when delivering Enterprise Resource Planning as service within Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Software as a Service (SaaS) has been utilized as a means to deliver an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system since the last decade. This software delivery model enables Small Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to outsource the system from vendors based on pay-per-use or pay-per-period without having to do prior investments. Yet, SaaS model is...

Researching a transition to an organized chaos in enterprise system architectures

After its founding 15 years ago, Tam Tam has encountered the limits of legacy systems used for the internal processes in recent years. To overcome these limits, multiple efforts have been made to enforce a transition to specific Enterprise Application Integration styles. Although the efforts resulted in working application interactions, the...

The Alignment of Business Models and Process Models in the Value Networks of Mobile Services

The mobile industry is characterized by rapid innovation due to the frequent changes in mobile/network technology, market trends and business needs. When an enterprise wants to reengineer its existing mobile services, the business model of the mobile service needs to be modified as well as the process models. However, business models and process...

Architecture framework in support of effort estimation of legacy systems modernization towards a SOA environment

Because of their poor Business/IT alignment, many legacy systems lack the flexibility to support rapid changes to the business processes they implement, required by today's enterprises. Furthermore, after many years of maintenance, there is a need to manage their resulting increased complexity and maximize asset utilization through reuse. The...

An enterprise ontology based approach to service specification

Businesses operate in ever-changing business environments. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems must constantly adapt in order to meet changing business requirements. Yet, adaptation of ICT systems in order to cope with these changes is difficult, because ICT systems in an organization strongly cohere. Service-oriented...