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A Methodology for Automatic Formal Verification of Enterprise Architecture

A Methodology for Automatic Formal Verification of Enterprise Architecture

Eduard Babkin, Pavel Malyzhenkov, Marina Ivanova, Nikita Ponomarev
Copyright: © 2019 |Volume: 10 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1947-8186|EISSN: 1947-8194|EISBN13: 9781522566601|DOI: 10.4018/IJISMD.2019010101
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Babkin, Eduard, et al. "A Methodology for Automatic Formal Verification of Enterprise Architecture." IJISMD vol.10, no.1 2019: pp.1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISMD.2019010101

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Babkin, E., Malyzhenkov, P., Ivanova, M., & Ponomarev, N. (2019). A Methodology for Automatic Formal Verification of Enterprise Architecture. International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), 10(1), 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISMD.2019010101

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Babkin, Eduard, et al. "A Methodology for Automatic Formal Verification of Enterprise Architecture," International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD) 10, no.1: 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISMD.2019010101

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Abstract

For over a decade, IT-business alignment has been ranked as a top-priority management concern, but there is little research on practical ways to achieve the alignment. EA development is a continuous iterative process, which implicitly ensures the achievement of a specific IT-business alignment level. Therefore, it is necessary to formalize the requirements for architecture and be able to automatically verify them. The authors propose a new methodology for detecting logical contradictions in enterprise architecture models based on a model checking approach adopted in the context of business modeling. In such a methodology, they use ArchiMate standard for a conceptual enterprise architecture description language which is fully aligned with TOGAF. The authors also offer several important verification queries and demonstrate practical applicability of their approach using a software prototype of the modeling tool which exploits MIT Alloy Analyzer model checking framework integrated with AchiMate Archi workbench.

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