An approach to enterprise-level business component integration in business architecture

The component-based business architecture integration of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems is a popular research topic in the field of military operational research. Currently, the prevalent methodologies for business component integration tend to focus on software-level business component, and ignore enterprise concerns in business architecture, such as organizations and resources. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to enterprise-level business component integration. First, we discuss the conception of enterprise-level business component and its relationships with DoDAF models. Then, a four-step process is proposed for integrating business components, mainly by modeling enterprise-level business component based on IDEF0 and integrating IDEF0 models automatically based on Petri net. After that, a case study is carried out to illustrate our approach.