Abstract
This chapter discusses the authors’ experience of building tool support for a modeling technique called Fractal Enterprise Model (FEM) using the ADOxx metamodeling environment. FEM is introduced as a means for helping the management to comprehend how their organization operates, giving a picture understandable for the management team. It depicts interconnections between the business processes in an enterprise and connects them to the assets they use and manage. Assets considered in the model could be tangible (buildings, heavy machinery, etc.) and intangible (reputation, business process definitions, etc.). First, the chapter presents FEM informally—as a text with examples—and formally, as a metamodel. Then, the authors present the requirements on a tool support for FEM and discuss how these requirements were fulfilled in a tool called the FEM toolkit developed with the help of ADOxx.
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The authors are very grateful to the ADOxx team for providing them with the environment for experimentation that allowed the creation of a toolkit using the minimum of resources. They are also much in debt to Dominik Bork who implemented the first version of the FEM toolkit and continues to support their efforts. The authors are also grateful to their students and colleagues Steven Leego, Erik Falenius, and August Carlsson who independently tested the FEM toolkit in practical projects. The first author’s work was partly supported by the Estonian Research Council (grant PRG1226).
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Bider, I., Perjons, E., Klyukina, V. (2022). Tool Support for Fractal Enterprise Modeling. In: Karagiannis, D., Lee, M., Hinkelmann, K., Utz, W. (eds) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93547-4_10
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