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A Meta-language for Enterprise Architecture Analysis

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Book cover Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2011, EMMSAD 2011)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 81))

Abstract

Enterprise Architecture (EA) management is a commonly accepted instrument to support strategic decision making. The objective of EA management is to improve business IT alignment by making the impact of planned changes explicit. The increasing interconnectivity of applications with other applications and with business processes however makes it difficult to get a complete view on change impacts and dependency structures. This information is nevertheless required to support decision makers. Current meta-languages proposed for the context of EA management provide only limited support for modelling qualitative and quantitative dependencies.

In this paper we propose a meta-language, which builds on the Meta Object Facility (MOF). This meta-language specifically accounts for the requirements of EA analysis. We discuss existing meta-languages from the field of EA management and related areas against these requirements. Building on the standard of the OMG, we present an extension of MOF designed to support EA analysis. The theoretic exposition of the extension is complemented by an example illustrating the applicability of the presented meta-language.

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  1. Chair for Software Engineering of Business Information Systems (sebis), Technische Universität München, Boltzmannster. 3, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes & Christian M. Schweda

  2. Industrial Information and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Osquldas v. 12, SE-10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    Markus Buschle & Pontus Johnson

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  3. Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

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Buckl, S., Buschle, M., Johnson, P., Matthes, F., Schweda, C.M. (2011). A Meta-language for Enterprise Architecture Analysis. In: Halpin, T., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2011 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 81. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_37

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