Modelling Enterprise Architectures: An Approach Based on Linking Metaphors and Ontologies
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This paper describes a new approach to modelling enterprise architectures. By viewing enterprise models as metaphors and then linking these metaphors, in a structured way, to ontologies, we propose that unified languages can be developed to describe a wide variety of enterprise structures. This overcomes a serious shortcoming with contemporary approaches to enterprise modelling. This approach is operationalised and applied to develop a new unified modelling language that demonstrates the application of this methodology.
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