Analyzable Enterprise Models Using Ontology

While a considerable amount of research on enterprise ontologies exists, work showing how to use ontologies for enterprise architecture (EA) analysis is scarce. We present our ongoing work on creating analyzable enterprise models using EA-based ontological representation. Our contributions are twofold: first, we show how an existing EA modeling language can be leveraged to create EA ontology and second, we show how EA analyses can be realized using this ontology. Initial results of basic EA change impact analysis suggest that ontology representation facilitates EA analysis prototyping due to right mix of representation and reasoning functionalities.

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