Enterprise Modelling and Model Integration

Abstract

The aim of enterprise modelling is to support and improve the design, documentation, analysis and administration of business objects and operations based on adequate modelling techniques [FG98, SAB98]. For this purpose, domainspecific enterprise models shall provide the basis for communication between people with different professional backgrounds [Fra02]. This chapter presents how model transformation and integration techniques presented in Part III can be applied to automate and improve the modelling tasks within a distributed enterprise modelling framework. Sect. 11.1 describes the main aspects of enterprise modelling and presents the used enterprise modelling framework. Sect. 11.2 illustrates how the alignment of different domains within the framework can be specified by triple graph grammars. Sects. 11.3 and 11.4 demonstrate the application of model transformation and integration techniques to concrete domain models. Finally, Sect. 11.5 discusses the achievements, their relevance and related work. This chapter is based on the results of a research collaboration between Technische Universität Berlin, the University of Luxembourg and Credit Suisse, which were published in [BHE09c, BHEE10, BH10, Her11, Bra13].