Maria-Eugenia Iacob

DR. M.E. IACOB

Adjunct Hoogleraar/Professor

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural Management and Social Sciences
Dep. Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems

P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

Room: RA 3416 (Ravelijn)
Tel: (+31 53 489)4134
E-mail: m.e.iacob@utwente.nl

BACKGROUND

Maria-Eugenia Iacob is currently professor (adjunct hoogleraar) at the department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems, at the University of Twente. Previously she worked as scientific researcher at Telematica Instituut (2000-2006). She holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University Babes-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has done research in the areas of (enterprise) information systems architecture design and analysis, service-oriented architectures, model driven development, model transformations, e-services architectures, e-government, business process (re)engineering and management, and business modelling, supply chain integration.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Enterprise Architectures: Methods, modelling and (quantitative) analysis
• Supply Chain Integration with Applications in Synchromodal Logistics
• Business modelling
• Goal, and Value modelling
• Business Process Integration and Management:
  • Quantitative analysis (performance) of business processes and enterprise architectures
  • Imperative and declarative process modelling, Business Rules
  • Inter- and intra-organizational business process integration
  • Coordination in supply chains
• Data and Process Interoperability of distributed enterprise applications, inter-organizational integration
• Electronic commerce and networked business
• Business Intelligence and Analytics
• Service-Orientation and Model-driven Design:
  • Service Oriented Architectures
  • Cloud Computing
  • Model-driven design of information systems
  • Model Transformations
• Context-aware services and applications
• Multi-Agent Systems, E-government, and e-services
• Serious gaming

RESEARCH

H-index

PhD students

• Dr. Lucas O. Meertens
• Fabian Aulkemeier
• Adina Aldea
• Andrej Dobrkovic
• Prince Singh

Participation in Research Projects

National programs & projects:

• 2012-2016: Catelog (Dinalog), partners: VU, UT, LogiXperience, Cool Cat, VDS fulfillment, Nic Oud,De Bijenkorf, VLM community ecommerce, Blokker, PostNL, WDM Nederland BV, Centric IT Solutions, Geodan.
• 2013-2016: SynchromodalIT, partners: UT, Dinalog, TNO, Cape Groep, CTT, Seacon, Port of Twente, NexusZ, MX-Systems, OVSoftware, Thales – TXchange, Arcadis.
• 2012-2013: Synchromodal Control Tower (Dinalog), partners: TNO, UT, Cape Groep, Seacon Logistics.
• 2015 – Hubways (Dinalog)
• BATMAN project (BArge - Terminal Multi Agent Network), winner of the 1-st price of Connekt’s “IDVV prijsvraag”, role: designer of the BATMAN system architecture (2011-2012), Parteners: UT, Cape Groep, Portbase, Combi Terminal Twente B.V., Port of Rotterdam.
• Planning Apart Together (Port of Rotterdam, MIS-Cobiva, Vito, Altimedes, and University of Twente)
• Archivalue, SII program of AgentschapNL, Partners: Novay, BiZZdesign, UT, APG, Hogeschool Utrecht, etc (2010-2011).
• ASD, SII program of AgentschapNL, Partners: BeInformed, BiZZdesign, Everest, IBM, O&i, PGGM, RuleManagement Group, Voogd & Voogd, CRP Henri Tudor, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Universiteit Twente, Universiteit en Hogeschool Utrecht en Novay (2010-2011).
• U-CARE (program “IOP Generieke Communicatie” of SenterNovem, partners: Universiteit Twente, Orbis Medical and Care group, IZIT, IBM, TKH Group en MobiHealth)
• Freeband A-MUSE
• ArchiMate (ABP, ABN-AMRO, Belastingdienst, Telematica Instituut, Ordina, LIACS, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, CWI)
• GigaPort Transaction Services

European projects:

• Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software – Interop NOE
• Context Aware Collaborative Environments for Next Generation Business Networks - COCONET (Project IST-2001-37460)

TEACHING

• Module coordinator of the Introduction to TBK (Technische bedrijfskunde; course code: 201300023), and Introduction to BIT (Business Information Technology; course code: 201300073) modules (first module in the new TBK and BIT bachelor programs)
• Module coordinator of the BIIT module (third module in the new TBK and BIT bachelor programs; course codes: 201300108 and 201300107)
• Finance, Accounting, and Information Systems (3^rd Module in the International Business Administration bachelor program; course code: 201300103)
• Foundations of Information Systems (course code: 186396) - master BIT
• Enterprise Architecture (course code: 201400277) – master BIT
• Enterprise Systems and Business Intelligence (course code: 201100029) – bachelor (year 2); participating programs: IBA (International Business Administration), TBK, and BIT
• Business Process Management (course code: 201100049) – bachelor (year 2) participating programs: TBK, and BIT.
• Business Information Systems Practicum (course code: 233040) - bachelor (year 2), participating programs: BIT
• Business Process Integration Lab (course code: 237650) – master IEM & BIT

Post-Academic Course development

• UT MOOC Supply Chain Innovation (2015/2016)
• Course material on Open Standards, Developed by UT and NOIV (2011)
• Co-author of the TOGAF 9 certification course of the International Management Forum (IMF) http://www.imf-online.com/vakgebieden/IT_algemeen/TOGAF_9_Foundation.php(2010)
• Course material for the master class Information Management (2011), Organised by the Faculty of Management & Governance, University of Twente (2011).
• Course material for the master class Management of e-Government (2011), Organised by the Faculty of Management & Governance, Professional Learning & Development, University of Twente (2010).

PUBLICATIONS

Scientific papers published in Periodicals & Journals

• F. Aulkemeier, M. A. Paramartha, M.-E. Iacob, and J. van Hillegersberg, “A Pluggable Service Platform Architecture for E-Commerce,” Information Systems and e-Business Management, 2015 (accepted).
• A. Dobrkovic, M.-E, Iacob, J. van Hillegersberg, M. R. K. Mes, M. Glandrup, Towards an Approach for Long Term AIS-Based Prediction of Vessel Arrival Times, In Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation, Part of the series Lecture Notes in Logistics pp 281-294, aug. 2015.
• M. R. K. Mes, M.-E. Iacob, Synchromodal Transport Planning at a Logistics Service Provider, In Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation, Part of the series Lecture Notes in Logistics pp 23-36, aug. 2015.
• A. Aldea, M. E. Iacob, J. van Hillegersberg, D. Quartel, H. Franken, Modelling Value with ArchiMate, In Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops, Volume 215 of the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing pp 375-388, 2015.
• A. Brand, M.-E. Iacob, M. J. van Sinderen, Interoperability Architecture for Electric Mobility, In Enterprise Interoperability, Volume 213 of the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing pp 126-140, 2015.
• C. L. Borges Azevedo, M.-E. Iacob, J. P. A Almeida, M. J van Sinderen, L. Ferreira Pires, G. Guizzardi, Modeling Resources and Capabilities in Enterprise Architecture: A Well-Founded Ontology-Based Proposal for ArchiMate, Information Systems Journal, Elsevier, Volume 54, December 2015, Pages 235–262.
• F. Aulkemeier, M. Schraam, M.E. Iacob, J. van Hillegersberg, Towards a Service-Oriented Reference Model for the E-Tailing, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER), vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1–20, 2016.
• P. Johnson, M.-E. Iacob, M. Välja, M. van Sinderen, C. Magnusson and T. Ladhe, A method for predicting the probability of business network profitability, Information Systems and e-Business Management journal, (2014) 12:567–593.
• M.E. Iacob, L.O. Meertens, H. Jonkers, D.A.C. Quartel, L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis, M.J. van Sinderen, From Enterprise Architecture to Business Models and back, Software & Systems Modeling, July 2014, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp 1059-1083, Springer.
• M. Mes, M.-E. Iacob, J. van Hillegersberg, A distributed barge planning game, Frontiers in gaming simulation: 44th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2013 and 17th IFIP WG 5.7 Workshop on Experimental Interactive Learning in Industrial Management, Stockholm, Sweden, June 24-28, 2013. Lecture notes in computer science (8264). Springer, Cham, 214 - 221.
• D. Viet Bui, M.-E. Iacob, M. van Sinderen and A. Zarghami, Achieving Flexible Process Interoperability in the Homecare Domain through Aspect-oriented Service Composition, Volume 144 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pages 113–129. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp 50-64, 2013.
• P. Johnson, M.-E. Iacob, M. Välja, M. van Sinderen, C. Magnusson and T. Ladhe, Business Model Risk Analysis: Predicting the Probability of Business Network Profitability, Volume 144 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pages 113–129. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp 118-130, 2013.
• M.E. Iacob, M.J. van Sinderen, M. Steenwijk, P. Verkroost, Towards a Reference Architecture for Fuel-based Carbon Management Systems in the Logistics Industry, Information Systems Frontiers, November 2013, Volume 15, Issue 5, pp 725-745.
• L.O. Meertens, M.E. Iacob, L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis, A method for business models development, In B. Shiskov (editor), Business Modelling and Software Design, Volume 109 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pages 113–129. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Engelsman, W. Jonkers, H. Franken, H.M. and Iacob, M.E. (2009), Architecture-driven requirements engineering. In Erik Proper, Frank Harmsen, and Jan L. G. Dietz, editors, Advances in Enterprise Engineering II, Volume 28 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pages 134–154. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Iacob M.-E., Rothengatter D., van Hillegersberg J. (2009). A Health-care Application of Goal-driven Software Design. Applied Medical Informatics, 24(1-2):12-33.
• M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, A Model-driven Perspective on the Rule-based Specification of Services, Enterprise Information Systems, Volume 3, August 2009, pages 279 - 298.
• M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M. Lankhorst, M. Steen, Service-oriented enterprise modelling and analysis: a case study, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), 2007 - Vol. 2, No.1 pp. 26 - 37.
• J.P.A. Almeida, M.E. Iacob, P. van Eck, Requirements Traceability in Model-Driven Development: Applying Model and Transformation Conformance, Information Systems Frontiers, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 327-342, Sep. 2007.
• M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, "Quantitative analysis of service-oriented architectures", International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, vol. 3, no. 1, Jan.-Mar. 2007, pp. 42-60.
• Almeida, J. P. A., Iacob, M.E., Jonkers, H., Quartel, D., Model-Driven Development of Context-Aware Services. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 4025, p. 213-227, 2006.
• R. van Buuren, H. Jonkers, M.-E. Iacob, and P. Strating. Composition of relations in enterprise architecture models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 3256, pages 39–53, 2004.

PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS

• A. Aldea, M.E. Iacob, J. van Hillegersberg, D. Quartel, L. Bodenstaff, H. Franken, Modelling strategy with ArchiMate, Proceedings of SAC '15 Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Pages 1211-1218.
• F. Aulkemeier, M.-E. Iacob, and J. van Hillegersberg, “Pluggable SaaS Integration: Quality Characteristics for Cloud Based Application Services,” in Enterprise Systems Conference (ES), Basel, 2015.
• A. Dobrkovic, M.E. Iacob, J. van Hillegersberg, Using machine learning for unsupervised maritime route pattern discovery, In the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business (i-KNOW 2015) October 21-22, 2015, Graz, Austria.
• A. Aldea, M. E. Iacob, J. Van Hillegersberg, D. Quartel, and H. Franken, "Capability-based planning with ArchiMate," In: 17th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ICEIS), 2015, pp. 352-359.
• A. Aldea, M.-E. Iacob, J. van Hillegersberg, D. Quartel, H. Franken, Serious gaming for the strategic planning process, In proceedings of 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, Geneva, Switzerland, July 14 – 17, 2014, 183-190.
• Veneberg, R.K.M. and Iacob, M.E. and Sinderen, M.J. van and Bodenstaff, L. (2014) Enterprise architecture intelligence. In: Eighteenth IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2014, 3-5 September 2014, Ulm, Germany (pp. 22-31).
• Singh, P.M. and Jonkers, H. and Iacob, M.-E. and van Sinderen, M.J. (2014) Modeling value creation with enterprise architecture. In: Sixteenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2014, Volume 3, 27-30 Apr 2014, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 343-351. SciTePress.
• C. Azevedo, M.E. Iacob, J.P. Almeida, M. van Sinderen and L. Pires, An Ontology-Based Well-Founded Proposal for Modeling Resources and Capabilities in ArchiMate, Accepted at The 17th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2013) "The Enterprise Computing Conference", September 9-13, 2013, Vancouver, Canada.
• M. Välja, M. Österlind, M.-E. Iacob, M. J. Van Sinderen and P. Johnson, Modeling and prediction of monetary and non-monetary business values, Accepted at The 17th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2013) "The Enterprise Computing Conference", September 9-13, 2013, Vancouver, Canada.
• A. Aldea, M.-E. Iacob, D. Quartel, H. Franken, Strategic planning and Enterprise Achitecture, Accepted for publication and presentation at The first IEEE Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES 2013), Cape Town, South Africa, 7-8 November 2013.
• L.O. Meertens, E. Starreveld, M.E. Iacob, L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis, A business case method for business models, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modelling and Software Design, 8-10 July, 2013, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, p. 33-42.
• A. Wombacher, M.E. Iacob, Start Time Estimation in Semi-Structured Processes, In Proceedings of the 28th Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2013), Coimbra Portugal, March 18 - 22, 2013.
• L.O. Meertens, E. Starreveld, M.E. Iacob, L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis, A Business Case Method for Business Models, Proceedings of the second International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design 2013 (BMSD 2013).
• D. Viet Bui, M.-E. Iacob, M. van Sinderen and A. Zarghami, Achieving Flexible Process Interoperability in the Homecare Domain through Aspect-oriented Service Composition, Accepted to the International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability Information, IWEI 2013, 27-28 March, Enschede, The Netherlands.
• P. Johnson, M.-E. Iacob, M. Välja, M. van Sinderen, C. Magnusson and T. Ladhe, Business Model Risk Analysis: Predicting the Probability of Business Network Profitability, Accepted to the International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability Information, IWEI 2013, 27-28 March, Enschede, The Netherlands.
• B.T. Alberts, L.O. Meertens, M.E. Iacob, and L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis, “The MOF Perspective on Business Modelling”, Proceedings of the second International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design 2012 (BMSD 2012), pp. 43-52.
• M.E. Iacob, D. Quartel, H. Jonkers, Capturing Business Strategy and Value in Enterprise Architecture to Support Portfolio Valuation, In Proceedings of The 16th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2012) "The Enterprise Computing Conference", September 10-14, 2012, Beijing, China,pp. 11-20.
• Wombacher, M.E. Iacob, Estimating the Processing Time of Process Instances in Semi-Structured Processes - A Case Study, Accepted to the IEEE SCC 2012 - 9th International Conference on Service Computing, June 24-29 2012, Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Meertens, L.O., Iacob, M.E., Jonkers, H., Nieuwenhuis, L.J.M., Quartel,D., Sinderen, M. van (2012), Mapping the Business Model Canvas to ArchiMate, In Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy, March 26-30, 2012, pp. 843-850.
• Sapkota, B. and Asuncion, C.H. and Iacob, M.-E. and van Sinderen, M.J. (2011) A Simple Solution for Information Sharing in Hybrid Web Service Composition. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2011, 29 Aug - 02 Sept 2011, Helsinki, Finland . pp. 235-244. IEEE Computer Society. ISSN 1541-7719 ISBN 978-1-4577-0362-1
• Wombacher, A. and Iacob, M.-E. and Haitsma, M. (2011), Towards a Performance Estimate in Semi-Structured Processes. In Proceedings of SOCA 2011.
• Balmus, A.B. and Iacob, M.-E. and van Sinderen, M.J. and van Busschbach, M. (2011) Reference system architecture for trade promotion management: leveraging business intelligence technologies and decision support systems. In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, CEC 2011, 5-7 Sep 2011, Luxembourg. pp. 179-184. IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 978-0-7695-4535-6
• Hoppen dos Santos, J. and Ferreira Pires, L. and Goncalves da Silva, E.M. and Iacob, M.-E. (2011) Public service improvement with user-centric service composition. In: Electronic Government and Electronic Participation, Joint Proceedings of the Ongoing Research and Projects of IFIP EGOV and ePart 2011, 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2011, Delft, the Netherlands. pp. 276-284. Schriftenreihe Informatik 37. Trauner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-85499-515-9
• Henk Jonkers, Erik (H.A.) Proper, Marc M. Lankhorst, Dick A.C. Quartel, and Maria-Eugenia Iacob, Convergence of Business Architecture, Business Process Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and Service Architecture workshop, Pp. 294-301, 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, 5- September 5-7, 2011, Luxembourg, Edited by: Hofreiter, B., et al., Published by: IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services, Los Alamitos, California – Washington - Tokyo ISBN 978-0-7695-4535-6.
• L.O. Meertens, M.E. Iacob, and L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis, “Developing the Business Modelling Method,” Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design 2011 (BMSD 2011), pp. 88-95.
• Spoelstra, W., M.E. Iacob, M. van Sinderen, Software Reuse in Agile Development Organizations - a Conceptual Management Tool , In The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Taichung, Taiwan March 22-26, 2011, pp. 312-319.
• Asuncion, C.H. and Iacob, M.E. and van Sinderen, M.J. (2010) Towards a flexible service integration through separation of business rules. In: 14th IEEE International EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC 2010), 25-29 Oct 2010, Vitoria, Brazil. pp. 184-193. IEEE Computer Society. ISSN 1541-7719 ISBN 978-0-7695-4163-1
• Steen, B. and Ferreira Pires, L. and Iacob, M.E. (2010) Automatic generation of optimal business processes from business rules. In: 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010, 25 Oct 2010, Vitória, Brazil. pp. 117-126. IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 978-0-7695-4164-8
• Meertens, L.O., Iacob, M.E., and Nieuwenhuis, L.J.M., Towards a Definition of Role-related Concepts for Business Modeling, In: 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010, 25 Oct 2010, Vitória, Brazil, pp. 138-147, IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 978-0-7695-4164-8
• L.O. Meertens, M.E. Iacob, L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis, Goal and Model Driven Design of an Architecture for a Care Service Platform, In The 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Sierre, Switzerland March 22-26, 2010, pp. 158-164.
• Moody, D.L., Iacob, M.E. & Amrit, C. (2010). In Search of Paradigms: Identifying the Theoretical Foundations of the IS Field. In T. Alexander, M. Turpin & J.P. van Deventer (Eds.), Proceedings of ECIS 2010.
• H. Asuncion, S. Pokraev, D.A.C. Quartel, M.E. Iacob, M.J. van Sinderen, Combining goal-oriented and model-driven approaches to solving the Payment Problem Scenario, In Proceedings of the 8th Semantic Web Services Challenge Workshop - SWSC 200, held in conjunction with ECOWS 09 - the Seventh IEEE European Conference on Web Services, November 9th 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• Meertens, L., Iacob, M.E., Eckartz, S., Feasibility of EPC to BPEL Model Transformations based on Ontology and Patterns, In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Event-Driven Business Process Management (edBPM09), held in conjunction with BPM’09, Ulm, 7 September 2009, pp. 1-13.
• Koster, S., Iacob, M.E., Ferreira-Pires, L., An Evaluation Framework for BPM Products, In S. Rinderle-Ma et al. (Eds.): BPM 2009 Workshops, LNBIP 43, pp. 441–452, 2010, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010, held in conjunction with the 7th Int'l. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM09), Ulm, Germany, in September 2009.
• W. Engelsman, H. Jonkers, H. M. Franken, M.-E. Iacob, Architecture-Driven Requirements Engineering, In E. Proper, F. Harmsen, and J.L.G. Dietz (Eds.), Proceedings: Advances in Enterprise Engineering II, First NAF Academy Working Conference on Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation, PRET 2009, held at CAiSE 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 11, 2009, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 28, 2009, ISSN 1865-1348, Pages 134-154, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg PRET 2009.
• H. Bakker, M.E. Iacob, Web-Services in the Dutch Healthcare Insurance Sector: Expected Versus Achieved Benefits, In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2004, March 8-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, vol. , p.805-807 (poster paper).
• 20. Wilco Engelsman, Maria E. Iacob, Henry M. Franken, Architecture-Driven Requirements Engineering, In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2004, March 8-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, vol. , p.1270-1272. (poster paper).
• M.E. Iacob, M.W.A. Steen, L. Heerink, Reusable Model Transformation Patterns, In Proceedings of the 3M4EC workshop, held in conjunction with the 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'08), September 2008, p.1-10.
• M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, A Model-driven Perspective on the Rule-based Specification of Services, In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'08), September 2008, p. 75-84.
• T. van Eindhoven, M.E. Iacob, M.L. Ponisio, Achieving business process flexibility with business rules, In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'08), September 2008, p. 95-104.
• T. Scheppers, M.E. Iacob, P.A.T. van Eck, A lifecycle approach to SOA Governance, In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2008, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 16-20, vol. 2, p. 1055-1061.
• S.M. Iacob, J.P. Almeida, M.E. Iacob, Optimized Dynamic Semantic Composition of Services, In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2008, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 16-20, vol. 3, p. 2286-2292.
• H. Jonkers, M.-E. Iacob, C. Köllmann & M. Goedicke, "An integrated approach to model-driven design, execution, analysis and monitoring", in R.J. Gonçalves, J.P. Müller, K. Mertins & M. Zelm (eds.), Enterprise Interoperability II: New Challenges and Approaches (Proc. 3rd International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications, I-ESA'07, Funchal, Portugal), Springer, March 2007, pp. 463-466.
• J.P.A. Almeida, M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers and D. Quartel, "Model-driven development of context-aware services", in F. Eliassen and A. Montresor (eds.), Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: Proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference (DAIS 2006), Bologna, Italy, June 2006, pp. 213-227.
• J.P.A. Almeida, M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M. Lankhorst and D. van Leeuwen, "An integrated model-driven service engineering environment", in Proc. 2nd Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications Conferernce (I-ESA'06), Bordeaux, France, 22-24 March, 2006.
• J. P. Almeida, P. van Eck, M.-E. Iacob, “Requirements Traceability and Transformation Conformance in Model-Driven Development”, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'06), pp. 355 – 366, 2006, ISBN ~ ISSN:1541-7719 , 0-7695-2558-X.
• M.-E. Iacob and H. Jonkers, “Quantitative analysis of enterprise architecture models”, In Proc. of INTEROP-ESA’05, First International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications, Geneva, Feb. 2005.
• H. Jonkers, M.-E. Iacob, M. Lankhorst and P. Strating, “Integration and analysis of functional and non-functional aspects in model-driven e-service development”, in Proc. 9th IEEE International EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference, Enschede, Sept. 2005, pp. 229-238.
• M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M.M. Lankhorst and M.W.A. Steen, Service-Oriented Enterprise Modelling and Analysis: A Case Study, in S. Gagnon, H. Ludwig, M. Pistore, W. Sadiq (Eds.), Proc. of First International Workshop on Service-Oriented Business Process Integration (SOBPI’05) held in conjunction with ICSOC’05, Amsterdam, Dec. 2005, p. 15-29
• http://web.njit.edu/~gagnon/sobpi/sobpi05-proceedings.pdf.
• R. van Buuren, H. Jonkers, M.-E. Iacob, and P. Strating. Composition of relations in enterprise architecture models. In H. Ehrig, G. Engels, F. Parisi-Presicce, and G. Rozenberg, editors, Graph Transformations – Proceedings of the Second International Conference (LNCS 3256), pages 39–53, Rome, Italy, Sept. 2004.
• Maria-Eugenia Iacob, Diederik van Leeuwen, View Visualisation for Enterprise Architecture: From conceptual framework to prototype, in ICEIS 2004, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Volume 3, Porto, PORTUGAL, April 14 – 17, 2004, p. 629-634.
• H. Jonkers, R. van Buuren, F. Arbab, F. de Boer, M. Bonsangue, H. Bosma, H. ter Doest, L. Groenewegen, J. Guillen Scholten, S. Hoppenbrouwers, M.-E. Iacob, W. Janssen, M. Lankhorst, D. van Leeuwen, E. Proper, A. Stam, L. van der Torre, G. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Towards a Language for Coherent Enterprise Architecture Descriptions, In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing, 16 – 19 September 2003, Brisbane, Australia, p. 28-39, ISBN:0-7695-1994-6.
• M.-E. Iacob, P. Boekhoudt, E. Fielt, E. Faber, The BFIT Electronic Business Analysis Methodology, In Proc. of the15th Bled Electronic Commerce Conference eReality: Constructing the eEconomy, Bled, Slovenia, June 17 - 19, 2002, p. 746-766.

Books and Book Chapters

• M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, D. Quartel,H. Franken, H. van den Berg, Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ARCHIMATE®, 2012, ISBN: 9789079240005, Van Haren Publishing.
• Co-Author of Chapter 4, 5, and 7 in: Agile Service Development – Combining Adaptive Methods and Flexible solutions, M. Lankhorst (ed.), Springer, 2012.
• M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M. Lankhorst, E. Proper, Dick A.C. Quartel, ArchiMate 2.0 Specification, The Open Group, Van Haren Publishing, February 2012, 1-937218-00-3.
• H. Jonkers, G.-J. Obers, M.E. Iacob (eds), Pocket Guide: Business Process Management, BiZZdesign Academy, 2009, ISBN: 978-90-875324-2-0.
• Co-author of: M. Lankhorst (ed) et al., Enterprise architecture at work, Second Edition, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-642-01309-6 ©Springer-Verlag.
• The Open Group, ArchiMate 1.0 Specification, Contributing authors: M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M. Lankhorst, E. Proper, Van Haren Publishing, 2009, ISBN: 978 90 8753 502 5, http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/doc/ts_archimate/.
• H. Jonkers, M. Iacob, Performance and Cost Analysis of Service-Oriented Enterprise Architectures, book chapter in the " Global Implications of Modern Enterprise Information Systems: Technologies and Applications", edited by Dr. Angappa Gunasekaran, Information science reference, p. 49-73, Hershey, 2009, ISBN 978-1-60566-146-9.
• M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, M. Lankhorst, E. Proper, Technical Standard ArchiMate® 1.0 Specification, ISBN: 1-931624-80-1, Document Number: C091, Pbublished by The Open Group, February 2009.
• W. Engelsman, H. Jonkers, H. M. Franken, M.-E. Iacob, Een systematische aanpak voor requirementsanalyse en -management - traceerbaarheid, onder architectuur en serviceparadigma, hoofdstuk in C.M. Hendriks en J.A. Oosterhaven (eds), Architectuur maakt de toekomst mogelijk, LAC-boek 2008, SDU uitgevers, Den Haag, 2008.
• Almeida, J. P. A. ; Iacob, M.E. ; Jonkers, H. ; Lankhorst, M. M. ; van Leeuwen, D. . An Integrated Model-Driven Service Engineering Environment. In: Doumeingts, G.; Müller, J.; Morel, G.; Vallespir, B. (Eds.). Enterprise Interoperability: New Challenges and Approaches. 1 ed. Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, p. 79-90.
• M.E. Iacob, H. Franken, H. van den Berg, Enterprise Architecture Handbook, BiZZdesign Academy Publishers, Enschede, 2007, ISBN 978-90-809722-6-1.
• H. van den Berg, H. Franken, M.E. Iacob, Primer Enterprise Architectuur, BiZZdesign Academy Publishers, Enschede, 2007, ISBN 978-90-809722-8-5 (Nederlands).
• M.E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, Quantitative Analysis of Enterprise Architectures, in Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications, Konstantas, D. Bourrières, J. P., Léonard M. and Boudjlida N. (eds), Springer, 2006, 239-252.
• M. Bijlsma, M. Lankhorst, M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, "Een servicegeoriënteerde architectuur voor de gemeentelijke e-dienstverlening", in C.M. Hendriks, J.A. Oosterhaven (red.), Architectuur in Ontwikkeling: Landelijk Architectuur Congres 2005, ICT-bibliotheek, Sdu Uitgevers, Den Haag, pp. 81-91, 2006, ISBN 90 121 13199.
• M. Iacob, H. Jonkers, L. van der Torre, F. de Boer, M. Bonsangue, A. Stam, Architecture Analysis, Chapter in M. Lankhorst (ed), Enterprise architecture at work, 2005, XVIII, ISBN: 3-540-24371-2 ©Springer-Verlag, p.191-222.
• M.M. Lankhorst, M.-E. Iacob, H. Jonkers, State of the art, Chapter in M. Lankhorst (ed), Enterprise architecture at work, 2005, XVIII, ISBN: 3-540-24371-2 ©Springer-Verlag, p. 11-46.
• H. Bosma, H. Jonkers, M.J. Cuvelier, P.G.M. Penders, S.F. Bekius, M.E. Iacob, Case studies, Chapter in M. Lankhorst (ed), Enterprise architecture at work, 2005, XVIII, ISBN: 3-540-24371-2 ©Springer-Verlag, p. 275-310.
• M.W.A. Steen, P. Strating, M.M. Lankhorst, H.W.L. ter Doest, M.E. Iacob, Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture, Chapter in Z. Stojanovici & A. Dahanayake eds., “Service-Oriented Software System Engineering – Chalenges and Practices”, Idea Group 2005, p.132-154.
• M.E. Iacob, P. Boekhoudt, F. Ebeling, Electronic Commerce Policies for Dutch SMEs, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (II), Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (eds), ISBN: 1-59140-553-X , Idea Group, Pub Date: January 2005, p. 1006-1011.
• M.E. Iacob, P. Boekhoudt, F. Ebeling, Helping SME’s to Engage in Electronic Commerce: The Dutch Way, Chapter in Brian J. Corbitt , Nabeel Al-Qirim(eds), e-Business, e-Government & Small and Medium-Size Enterprises: Opportunities and Challenges, Idea Group, ISBN: 1-59140-202-6, 2004, p. 46-64.
• S. Tigan, A. Achimas, I. Coman, T. Drugan, E. Iacob: Multicriteria Decisions. SRIMA, 2001, ISBN 973-99781-3-4 (Romanian).
• S. M. Iacob, R. L. Lagendijk, M. E., Iacob, Asymmetric Similarity Measures for Video Summarisation, in Veltkamp, Remco C.; Burkhardt, Hans; Kriegel, Hans-Peter (Eds.), State-of-the-Art in Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval, Computational Imaging and Vision series, vol. 22, 2001.
• M.E. Iacob, Convexity, Approximation and Optimisation on Networks, PhD Thesis, University “Babes-Bolyai” of Cluj-Napoca, March 1998 (in Romanian).

Popular Publications

• Jonkers, H., Berg, H. van den, Iacob, M.-E., and Quartel, D., ArchiMate Extension for Modeling TOGAF’s Implementation and Migration Phases, White Paper, The Open Group, October 2010.
• H. Jonkers, M. M. Lankhorst, M.-E. Iacob, E. Proper, ArchiMate 1.0: De Internationale Standaard voor het Modelleren van Enterprise-Architecturen, published in Via Nova Architectura & Business Process Magazine, 2009.
• T. Schepers, M. E. Iacob, R. de Maat, P. van Eck, Het inrichten van een SOA governance levenscyclus, Via Nova Architectura, 17 januari 2008, http://vianovaarchitectura.nl/page/het-inrichten-van-een-soa-governance-levenscyclus.
• M.-E. Iacob, H. M. Franken, H. van den Berg, H. Bakker, Capturing Architecture for the Adaptive Enterprise, Via Nova Architectura, 25 april 2007, http://vianovaarchitectura.nl/page/capturing-architecture-for-the-adaptive-enterprise
• M. Bijlsma, M. Lankhorst, M.-E. Iacob en H. Jonkers, "Soa voor de gemeentelijke dienstverlening", Informatie, vol.47, november 2005, pp. 86-92 © SDU, http://www.informatie.nl/Artikelen/2005/november/Soavoordegemeentelijkedienstverlening.aspx.

Technical Reports (selection)

• Wombacher, A. and Iacob, M.-E. and Haitsma, M. (2011) Towards a Performance Estimate in Semi-Structured Processes. Technical Report TR-CTIT-11-26, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology University of Twente, Enschede. ISSN 1381-3625
• M.-E. Iacob, D. Rothengatter, J. van Hillegersberg, Goal specification and analysis in value-shop systems, February, 2009, Universiteit Twente/Telematica Instituut.
• J. van Hillegersberg, M.E. Iacob, C.P. Katsma, S.M. Eckhartz, E.J.A. Folmer, A.M. Douma, PAT: Planning apart together - Een systeem voor afstemming van binnenvaart en terminal activiteiten in de haven van Rotterdam, Okt, 2009.

NETWORKS

• Member of the NAF ArchiMate Work Group (http://www.naf.nl/nl/werkgroepen/archimate.html)
• Member of the IFIP WG5.8 Enterprise interoperability (https://www.ifip-ei.org/members)
• Member of the Working Group on Generalized Convexity (http://www.genconv.org/index.php/membership-area/members-list-by-country)
• Relationships with the industry (among others): Deloitte, BiZZdesign, Thales, Dinalog, OVSoftware, Cape Groep, CTT, Seacon, Port of Twente, TNO, etc.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Workshop co-chair of the BDI4E Workshop, held in conjunction with the I-ESA 2016 conference.
• Workshop co-chair of the 3M4SE International Workshop series– 2010, 2011, held in conjunction with the EDOC conference.
• Workshops chair of the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2010), 25-29 October 2010, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
• Co-chair of the Enterprise Engineering (EE) and Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) technical tracks at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2009-2011.
• Co-chair of the at the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – SAC 2009, March 8-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• Co-organizer of the 9th IEEE International EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference, Enschede, Sept. 2005.
• NAF-architectuurprijs 2008 voor de ArchiMate team, http://www.naf.nl/nl/naf-prijzen/2008_rijkswaterstaat_archimate__jan_hoogervorst.html
• Reviewer of TOGAF 8 – The Enterprise Edition.
• Member in the program committee and reviewer for several conferences, scientific workshops, and journals e.g., ECIS, IWEI, IEEE International EDOC Conference, International Workshop on Models and Model-driven Methods for Enterprise, Computing (3M4EC), IEEE Transactions Systems, Man and Cybernetics C, Information Systems Frontiers Journal, Software and Systems Modeling Journal, Information Systems and e-Business Management Journal, Electronic Markets - The international journal on networked business, etc.