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Bridging value modelling to ArchiMate via transaction modelling

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The ArchiMate modelling language provides a coherent and a holistic view of an enterprise in terms of its products, services, business processes, actors, business units, software applications and more. Yet, ArchiMate currently lacks (1) expressivity in modelling an enterprise from a value exchange perspective, and (2) rigour and guidelines in modelling business processes that realize the transactions relevant from a value perspective. To address these issues, we show how to connect e \(^{3}\) value, a technique for value modelling, to ArchiMate via transaction patterns from the DEMO methodology. Using ontology alignment techniques, we show a transformation between the meta models underlying e \(^{3}\) value, DEMO and ArchiMate. Furthermore, we present a step-wise approach that shows how this model transformation is achieved and, in doing so, we also show the of such a transformation. We exemplify the transformation of DEMO and e \(^{3}\) value into ArchiMate by means of a case study in the insurance industry. As a proof of concept, we present a software tool supporting our transformation approach. Finally, we discuss the functionalities and limitations of our approach; thereby, we analyze its and practical applicability.

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  1. http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/.

  2. Note that ‘fee’ is not included in the value model, because the value model depicts only the initial acquisition of an insurance package, not the subsequent monthly compensation thereof.

  3. http://www.eclipse.org/atl/.

  4. For example, while still in a test-phase, the browser-based, open-access, DEMO modelling environment available on ‘modelworld’ (http://www.modelworld.nl/, last accessed on April 17, 2012) allows for creating DEMO models.

  5. For example,the Open Source tool Archi (http://archi.cetis.ac.uk/) allows for creating ArchiMate-models, and importing/exporting these to XML-based formats.

  6. This is based on a literature search on google scholar, ingentaconnect, and citeseer with the key words model transformation {quality, assessment, testing, evaluation}.

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This work has been partially sponsored by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (http://www.fnr.lu), via the CORE and PEARL programmes.

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    Sybren de Kinderen, Khaled Gaaloul & Henderik A. Proper

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de Kinderen, S., Gaaloul, K. & Proper, H.A. Bridging value modelling to ArchiMate via transaction modelling. Softw Syst Model 13, 1043–1057 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-012-0299-z

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