A first step in developing eBusiness ideas is to understand such an idea thoroughly. In the recent past, industry has clearly demonstrated that such an understanding lacks or at least is insufficient, resulting in failures and sometimes even bankruptcies. In this chapter we present an approach to design an eBusiness model, called the evalue approach. This approach is ontologically founded in bu...

This paper takes stock of an ongoing language merging experiment on value-based componential language engineering. In line with earlier work, we discuss that conceptual modelling languages can be perceived from a value perspective, and that doing so opens up the possibility of “model bundling”. This means that we unbundle languages into valuable constituent parts, and subsequently mix-and-match...

There are currently some ontologies of business collaboration that facilitate automated collaboration, such as evalue, REA, and BMO. However, these ontologies model the situation that all business actors can be trusted. This is not true in practice. To realize automated business collaboration, trust needs to be added to the business ontology. In this paper, we extend the evalue ontology with th...

In this paper, we question the nature and dimensions of eValues. We apply our approach to electronic marketplaces (EMPs), as an illustration of interorganizational information systems. The research is based upon 50 interviews made in 6 EMPs, and a thematic analysis on the themes linked to “the value of EMPs”. Our results categorise the different perceptions of eValues according to the different...

The article focuses on the integrated environmental accounting model called ‘eValue’, developed for protected areas and applied in research programme coordinated by Italian Ministry of Environment aimed at implementing an system Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). eValue adopts a cost-benefit analysis approach. Financial based costs revenues is with accounting, which reflects revenues, i.e., benefit...

In this paper we show how business value modelling and enterprise architecture can blend into an integral approach for modelling e-services business cases. The approach, building upon evalue and ArchiMate, allows to link revenues and cost in a single model. The approach is illustrated on by the business case model of a virtual laboratory in the process industry. First experiences have shown sig...

The VALUE-IT project is addressing the problem of developing techniques to allow adaptive service configuration using evalue support. Such a service configuration also must match with specific consumer needs. In this sense, the first step is to deal with the problem of designing techniques to perform automatic service configuration. Consequently tasks related with IT elicitation, reuse of knowl...

Chemical extractants used to measure labile soil metal must ideally select for and solubilise the labile fraction, with minimal solubilisation of non-labile metal. We assessed four extractants (0.43 M HNO3, 0.43 M CH3COOH, 0.05 M Na2H2EDTA and 1 M CaCl2) against these requirements. For soils contaminated by contrasting sources, we compared isotopically exchangeable Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb (EValue...