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With a trend toward becoming more and more information based, enterprises constantly attempt to surpass the accomplishments of each other by improving their information activities. Building an Enterprise Architecture (EA) undoubtedly serves as a fundamental concept to accomplish this goal. EA typically encompasses an overview of the entire information system in an enterprise, including the software, hardware, and information architectures. Here, we aim the use of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) in order to cover different aspects of Enterprise Architecture. MDA, the most recent de facto standard for software development, has been selected to address EA across multiple hierarchical levels spanned from business to IT. Despite the fact that MDA is not intended to contribute in this respect, we plan to enhance its initial scope to take advantage of the facilities provided by this innovative architecture. The presented framework helps developers to design and justify completely integrated business and IT systems which results in improved project success rate.
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Ostadzadeh, S.S., Aliee, F.S., Ostadzadeh, S.A. (2008). An MDA-Based Generic Framework to Address Various Aspects of Enterprise Architecture. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8741-7_81
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