IMAGIM+ A knowledge-based system for enterprise modeling

From the beginning of the 80s, several methods for enterprise modelling have been developed, among which the GRAI approach. The GRAI Integrated Methodology (GIM) is one methodology belonging to the GRAI approach, enabling the modelling of the enterprises’ physical and informational systems, as well as their decisional system. Imagim+ is the software support to GIM, providing assistance for the implementation of the approach. Imagim+ is composed of a set of integrated graphic editors for each formalism used in the GIM methodology (grids, nets, Idef0 and E/R diagrams). Besides its graphical capabilities, the software has an expert system to validate and diagnose malfunctions in the models built. This paper presents Imagim+, describing its main fimctionalities and use in enterprise modelling.