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Towards a language for coherent enterprise architecture descriptions

Towards a language for coherent enterprise architecture descriptions

Authors :
Jonkers, H.
Buuren, R. van
Arbab, F.
Boer, F.A. de
Bonsangue, M.
Bosma, H.
Doest, H. ter
Groenewegen, L.
Guillen Scholten, J.
Hoppenbrouwers, S.J.B.A.
Iacob, M.-E.
Janssen, W.
Lankhorst, M.M.
Leeuwen, D. van
Proper, H.A.
Stam, A.
Torre, L.W.N. van der
Veldhuijzen van Zanten, G.E.
Steen, M.
Steen, M.
Source :
EDOC, Steen, M. (ed.), EDOC'03 : 7th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, pp. 28-39, Steen, M. (ed.), EDOC'03 : 7th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 28-39. Washington : IEEE Computer Society Press, STARTPAGE=28;ENDPAGE=39;TITLE=Steen, M. (ed.), EDOC'03 : 7th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Publication Year :
2004
Publisher :
IEEE Comput. Soc, 2004.

Abstract

A coherent description of architectures provides insight, enables communication among different stakeholders and guides complicated (business and ICT) change processes. Unfortunately, so far no architecture description language exists that fully enables integrated enterprise modeling. In this paper we focus on the requirements and design of such a language. This language defines generic, organization-independent concepts that can be specialized or composed to obtain more specific concepts to be used within a particular organisation. It is not our intention to re-invent the wheel for each architectural domain: wherever possible we conform to existing languages or standards such as UML. We complement them with missing concepts, focusing on concepts to model the relationships among architectural domains. The concepts should also make it possible to define links between models in other languages. The relationship between architecture descriptions at the business layer and at the application layer (business-IT alignment) plays a central role.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Seventh IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2003. Proceedings.
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....cbce292fa21e7c62a8c2e29f9639c349
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/edoc.2003.1233835