Enterprise Architecture Framework for Agile and Interoperable Virtual Enterprises

Abstract

Virtual enterprise (VE) has become a prime candidate to survive under the increasingly turbulent and competitive business environment. In order to quickly respond to the rapidly changing business environment, the agility and interoperability are regarded as the core requirements for the VEs. Unfortunately, there is no previous approach to fully support configurations of the agile and interoperable VE. The systematic modeling framework based on the meta-model driven approach could be used for business domain experts and developers to construct VE models quickly and systematically with insights. It should be noted that this chapter aims to present a systematic modeling framework itself, not to generate only instances of VE models. Based on the proposed framework, business domain experts and developers would configure all of VE models such as VE architectures, modeling languages, model transformations, and deployment models, as well as instances of VE models.