Representation and analysis of enterprise models with semantic techniques: an application to ArchiMate, e3value and business model canvas

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• 作者：Artur Caetano ; Gonçalo Antunes ; João Pombinho…
• 关键词：Enterprise modelling ; Model analysis ; Model integration ; Semantic techniques ; Ontology ; ArchiMate ; e3value ; Business model canvas
• 刊名：Knowledge and Information Systems
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：50
• 期：1
• 页码：315-346
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• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Information Systems and Communication Service; IT in Business;
• 出版者：Springer London
• ISSN：0219-3116
• 卷排序：50

文摘

Enterprise models assist the governance and transformation of organizations through the specification, communication and analysis of strategy, goals, processes, information, along with the underlying application and technological infrastructure. Such models cross-cut different concerns and are often conceptualized using domain-specific modelling languages. This paper explores the application of graph-based semantic techniques to specify, integrate and analyse multiple, heterogeneous enterprise models. In particular, the proposal described in this paper (1) specifies enterprise models as ontological schemas, (2) uses transformation mapping functions to integrate the ontological schemas and (3) analyses the integrated schemas with graph querying and logical inference. The proposal is evaluated through a scenario that integrates three distinct enterprise modelling languages: the business model canvas, e3value, and the business layer of the ArchiMate language. The results show, on the one hand, that the graph-based approach is able to handle the specification, integration and analysis of enterprise models represented with different modelling languages and, on the other, that the integration challenge resides in defining appropriate mapping functions between the schemas.