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Analyzing Enterprise Models Using Enterprise Architecture-Based Ontology

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Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2013)

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Abstract

Development and maintenance of enterprise systems is becoming more difficult due to change drivers along multiple interconnected dimensions. It is advisable to model the enterprise first and analyze it for potential concerns. For modeling enterprises, ontologies have been considered apt and have been used in the past for the same, but application of ontologies for EA analysis based on concepts of enterprise and relations between them have been scarce. We present our ongoing work on analyzing enterprise models using EA-based ontological representation of enterprise. Our contributions are twofold: first, we show how an existing EA modeling language can be leveraged to create EA ontology and second, we show how two known EA analyses can be realized using this ontology. Initial results suggest that ontology representation facilitates basic EA analysis prototyping due to right mix of representation and inference functionalities and is extensible for more involved EA analyses.

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    Sagar Sunkle, Vinay Kulkarni & Suman Roychoudhury

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Ana Moreira

  2. Institut für Mathematik, fortiss / Technische Universität München, Guerickestraße 25, 80805, München, Germany

    Bernhard Schätz

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama, Box 870290, 35487-0290, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

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  4. ETSI Informática, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, Bulevar Louis Pasteur 35, 29071, Málaga, Spain

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  5. School of Computing and Information Sciences, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, 33199, Miami, FL, USA

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Sunkle, S., Kulkarni, V., Roychoudhury, S. (2013). Analyzing Enterprise Models Using Enterprise Architecture-Based Ontology. In: Moreira, A., Schätz, B., Gray, J., Vallecillo, A., Clarke, P. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41533-3_38

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