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A Tool for Managing the Evolution of Enterprise Architecture Meta-model and Models

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Information Systems (EMCIS 2017)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 299))

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Enterprise Architecture advocates the use of models to support decisions about organizational changes aligned with the organization’s strategy and vision. However, few existing tools support change impact analysis and automated model updates. This paper proposes a software tool, that supports co-evolution of the enterprise architecture meta-model and conforming model as well as prior change impact analysis of the model. The proposal focuses on the architecture and user interface of the software tool that is now being developed.

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    Tiago Rechau, Nuno Silva, Miguel Mira da Silva & Pedro Sousa

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Rechau, T., Silva, N., da Silva, M.M., Sousa, P. (2017). A Tool for Managing the Evolution of Enterprise Architecture Meta-model and Models. In: Themistocleous, M., Morabito, V. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 299. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65930-5_6

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