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An Ontological Matching Approach for Enterprise Architecture Model Analysis

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Business Information Systems (BIS 2016)

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Enterprise architecture aligns business and information technology through the management of different elements and domains. Performing an integrated analysis of EA models using automated techniques is necessary when EA model representations grow in complexity, in order to support, for example, benchmarking of business processes or assessing compliance with requirements. Moreover, heterogeneity challenges arise from the frequent usage of multiple modelling languages, each based on a specific meta-model that cross-cuts distinct architectural domains. The motivation of this paper is, therefore, to investigate to what extent ontology matching techniques can be used as a means to improve the execution of automated analysis of EA model representations, based on the syntax, structure and semantic heterogeneities of these models. For that, we used AgreementMakerLight, an ontology matching system, to evaluate the matching of EA models based on the ArchiMate and BPMN languages.

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The authors are grateful to Marco Rospocher, for making the OWL representation of BPMN available. This work was supported by national funds through Fundao para a Cincia e a Tecnologia (FCT) with reference UID/CEC/50021/2013 and UID/CEC/00408/2013.

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  1. INESC-ID - Information Systems Group, Lisbon, Portugal

    Marzieh Bakhshandeh

  2. LaSIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Catia Pesquita & José Borbinha

  3. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Marzieh Bakhshandeh, Catia Pesquita & José Borbinha

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  2. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

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  3. Information System Institute, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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Bakhshandeh, M., Pesquita, C., Borbinha, J. (2016). An Ontological Matching Approach for Enterprise Architecture Model Analysis. In: Abramowicz, W., Alt, R., Franczyk, B. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39426-8_25

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