Artifacts that verifies the accomplishment of linguistic and ontological conformance of models.
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Drafting Enterprise Models
Hector Florez (Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Colombia), Mario Sanchez (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), and Jorge Villalobos (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5522-3.ch008
Abstract
Enterprise models are created to analyze, document, and communicate the state of an enterprise under multiple perspectives. In addition to being large and complex, the construction of these models presents several difficulties: firstly, they require information provided by sources that might be inaccurate, incomplete, or even obsolete; secondly, although they should be structured, it is not possible to completely define their metamodel a priori. To support this construction process, the usage of enterprise model drafts is proposed, which should have the capacity to conform to changing metamodels and should also support incomplete or imperfect information. Unfortunately, current frameworks and tools have limitations for supporting these two features. Therefore, a set of strategies for the construction of modeling environments that make it possible to properly handle drafts is also proposed. These strategies include the support of metamodel flexibility during the modeling process and an approach to model imperfect information.