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Exploring Enterprise Architecture Knowledge Graphs in Archi: The EAKG Toolkit

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Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2022 Workshops (EDOC 2022)

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This paper presents the EAKG Toolkit that entails a new Knowledge Graph-based representation of enterprise architecture (EA) models and further enables reasoning on EA knowledge. Our developed EAKG Toolkit is unique in the sense that it i) transforms ArchiMate models into a KG representation – the Enterprise Architecture Knowledge Graph (EAKG), ii) visualizes the EAKG for interactive exploration, and iii) extends the EAKG with additional nodes and edges to visually represent detected EA smells.

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    neovis.js: https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neovis.js/.

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This work has been partially funded through the Erasmus+ KA220-HED project Digital Platform Enterprise (project no.: 2021-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000027576) and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency via the Austrian Competence Center for Digital Production (contract no. 854187).

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  1. Business Informatics Group, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Philipp-Lorenz Glaser, Syed Juned Ali & Dominik Bork

  2. Database and Artificial Intelligence Group, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Emanuel Sallinger

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Glaser, PL., Ali, S.J., Sallinger, E., Bork, D. (2023). Exploring Enterprise Architecture Knowledge Graphs in Archi: The EAKG Toolkit. In: Sales, T.P., Proper, H.A., Guizzardi, G., Montali, M., Maggi, F.M., Fonseca, C.M. (eds) Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2022 Workshops . EDOC 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 466. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26886-1_21

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