A Tool for Managing the Evolution of Enterprise Architecture Meta-model and Models

Enterprise Architecture advocates the use of models to support decisions about organizational changes aligned with the organization’s strategy and vision. However, few existing tools support change impact analysis and automated model updates. This paper proposes a software tool, that supports co-evolution of the enterprise architecture meta-model and conforming model as well as prior change impact analysis of the model. The proposal focuses on the architecture and user interface of the software tool that is now being developed.

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