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Enterprise Architecture: An Alternative to ArchiMate Conceptualization

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Software Engineering Trends and Techniques in Intelligent Systems (CSOC 2017)

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ArchiMate is a modeling language developed to provide a uniform representation of enterprise architecture descriptions. It visualizes the different architecture domains and their underlying relationships and dependencies. Many organizations are already using it as the standard for describing enterprise architecture. Because of its inherent holistic nature and as a direct consequence of its coarse-grained language, ArchiMate lacks specificity for in-depth modeling of different perspectives. This paper proposes a flow-based modeling technique as a foundation enterprise architecture. This approach is illustrated by use of a case study from the ArchiMate literature.

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    Sabah Al-Fedaghi

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  1. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlin, Czech Republic

    Radek Silhavy

  2. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlin, Czech Republic

    Petr Silhavy

  3. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlin, Czech Republic

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  4. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlin, Czech Republic

    Roman Senkerik

  5. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlin, Czech Republic

    Zuzana Kominkova Oplatkova

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Al-Fedaghi, S. (2017). Enterprise Architecture: An Alternative to ArchiMate Conceptualization. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z., Senkerik, R., Kominkova Oplatkova, Z. (eds) Software Engineering Trends and Techniques in Intelligent Systems. CSOC 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 575. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57141-6_8

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