Enterprise Modeling in Support Of Transparency in the Design and Use of Software Systems

Abstract

Transparency is increasingly perceived as a relevant requirement for the design and use of software in general, and for systems using machine learning (ML) algorithms in particular. The existing approaches to ensuring software transparency however, among others, often follow only a one-sided perspective on transparency and, at the same time, neglect the organizational context of software design and use. Since enterprise modeling (EM) allows to analyse enterprise information systems (EIS) and organizational aspects in tandem, in this paper we focus on how EM can support transparency while designing and using software. To this aim, we propose an interactive understanding of transparency, which has the collaboration of different stakeholders at its core. Based on this understanding, we derive a set of requirements, and use them to extend a selected EM approach. We evaluate the extended approach two-fold: against requirements and using an exemplary scenario.