TY - GEN
T1 - A meta-language for EA information modeling - State-of-the-art and requirements elicitation
AU - Buckl, Sabine
AU - Matthes, Florian
AU - Schweda, Christian M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Enterprise architecture (EA) management has not only recently gained importance as means to support enterprises in adapting to a changing market environment and in seizing new business opportunities. This twofold role of EA management in transforming enterprises is connected to describing the current state as well as future states of the EA. Although different information models for the description of these states have yet been proposed in literature, no 'standard' information model exists, and the plurality advocates for the idea that such models are enterprise-specific design artifacts. In this paper, we explore the fundamentals of EA information modeling, namely the meta-languages underlying today's models, and analyze their diversity. Based on the analysis, we elicit requirements for a "unifying" meta-language. By showing that multi-purpose modeling facilities, as the OMG's UML, fail to fully satisfy these requirements, we establish a future field of research - a meta-language for EA information modeling.
AB - Enterprise architecture (EA) management has not only recently gained importance as means to support enterprises in adapting to a changing market environment and in seizing new business opportunities. This twofold role of EA management in transforming enterprises is connected to describing the current state as well as future states of the EA. Although different information models for the description of these states have yet been proposed in literature, no 'standard' information model exists, and the plurality advocates for the idea that such models are enterprise-specific design artifacts. In this paper, we explore the fundamentals of EA information modeling, namely the meta-languages underlying today's models, and analyze their diversity. Based on the analysis, we elicit requirements for a "unifying" meta-language. By showing that multi-purpose modeling facilities, as the OMG's UML, fail to fully satisfy these requirements, we establish a future field of research - a meta-language for EA information modeling.
KW - Enterprise architecture
KW - Modeling language
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876225369&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-13051-9_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-13051-9_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876225369
SN - 9783642130502
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 169
EP - 181
BT - Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 11th International Workshop, BPMDS 2010 and 15th International Conference, EMMSAD 2010, Held at CAiSE 2010, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 11th International Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2010 and 15th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2010, Held in Conjunction with CAiSE 2010
Y2 - 7 June 2010 through 8 June 2010
ER -