The importance of capabilities and resources for portfolio management and business strategy has been recognized in the management literature. Despite that, little attention has been given to integrate the notions of c...
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The importance of capabilities and resources for portfolio management and business strategy has been recognized in the management literature. Despite that, little attention has been given to integrate the notions of capabilities and resources in enterprisearchitecture descriptions. One notable exception is a recent proposal to extend the ArchiMate framework and language to include capability and resources and thus improve ArchiMate's coverage of portfolio management. This paper presents an ontological analysis of the concepts introduced in that proposal, focusing in particular on the resource, capability and competence concepts. We provide an account for these concepts in terms of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). The analysis allows us to identify semantic issues in the proposal and suggests well-founded recommendations for improvements. We revise the proposed metamodel in order to address the identified problems, thereby improving the semantic clarity and usefulness of the proposed language extension. Two real-world cases are modeled with the resulting metamodel to show the applicability of the constructs and relations in an industrial setting. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
All enterprise architecture modeling (EAM) approaches revolve around the use of multiple, inter-related views to describe the properties of a system and its surrounding environment - that is, they are multi-view speci...
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(纸本)9781467392037
All enterprise architecture modeling (EAM) approaches revolve around the use of multiple, inter-related views to describe the properties of a system and its surrounding environment - that is, they are multi-view specification (MVS) approaches. However, there is still little consensus on how such modeling environments should be realized and on the pros and cons of the different fundamental design choices involved in building them. In this paper we identify the different design choices put forward in the literature, evaluate their mutual compatibility, and discuss the extent to which they scale up to large enterprise systems. Finally we present some additional choices and outline some of the key features that future multi-view modeling environments should ideally support.
When metamodels evolve, model conformity may be broken. This forces the owners of the models (modelers) to intervene because it is impossible to automatically discover what to change in order to regain conformity. Thi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781450317986
When metamodels evolve, model conformity may be broken. This forces the owners of the models (modelers) to intervene because it is impossible to automatically discover what to change in order to regain conformity. This paper presents ASIMOV, a platform for model and metamodel coevolution based on two hypothesis: i) a metamodeler knows the rationale behind metamodel changes, and is capable of providing guidelines for model coevolution;ii) the modeler is the only one in grade of making final decisions about his models. ASIMOV provides two languages for metamodelers: ASIMOV Evolution, to specify changes in the metamodels;and ASIMOV Assistance, to propose corresponding changes in the models. Also, ASIMOV Engine solves automatically the changes in models that can be automatically solved and assists modelers in coevolving their models to regain conformity. Moreover, modelers can adapt the proposed changes to suit their particular needs, introducing additional information when it is required. ASIMOV is here illustrated in the context of enterprisearchitecture projects. Copyright 2012 ACM.
While enterprise architecture modeling (EAM) methodologies become more and more popular, an EAM methodology tailored to the needs of virtual organizations (VO) is still to be developed. Among the most popular EAM meth...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783642045677
While enterprise architecture modeling (EAM) methodologies become more and more popular, an EAM methodology tailored to the needs of virtual organizations (VO) is still to be developed. Among the most popular EAM methodologies, TOGAF has been chosen as the basis for a new EAM methodology taking into account characteristics of VOs presented in this paper. In this new methodology, referred as Virtual Organization Breeding Methodology (VOBM), concepts developed within the ECOLEAD project, e.g. the concept of Virtual Breeding Environment (VBE) or the VO creation schema, serve as fundamental elements for development of VOBM. VOBM is a generic methodology that should be adapted to a given VBE. VOBM defines the structure of VBE and VO architectures in a service-oriented environment, as well as an architecture development method for virtual organizations (ADM4VO). Finally, a preliminary set of tools and methods for VOBM is given in this paper.
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