Enterprise architecture within railway systems engineering

Enterprise Systems Architecting: Emerging Art and Science within Engineering Systems

With the growing complexity of systems, there is a corresponding increase in the complexity of the enterprises that develop, operate, and sustain such systems in an increasingly global environment. This drives the need to take a broader view of enterprises as systems in themselves to which we must apply the principles and practices of architecting. The current practice of Enterprise Architectin...

Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering

Several developments, such as the success of cloudcomputing show that not the ownership of IT resources but their management is the foundation for sustainable competitive advantage [1]. According to [2], smart companies define how they (will) do business (using an operating model) and design processes and infrastructure critical to their current and future operations (using an enterprise archit...

Interface Life Cycle Management within Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architectures provide reasonable information to guide evolution of complex technical systems within their organizational embeddings. In current approaches, viewing the impact of system changes is focused on analyzing components and neglects detailed views of interfaces connecting components. This paper presents a new approach, which considers interfaces as first-class objects to supp...

Engineering Systems: an Enterprise Perspective

Engineering Context Aware Enterprise Systems

According to Anind Dey[1], context is: “Any information that can be used to characterize the situation of entities (i.e. whether a person, place or object) that are considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and the application themselves. Context is typically the location, identity and state of people, groups and computational and physical obje...