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Enterprise Modelling

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Handbook on Enterprise Architecture

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An enterprise model is a computational representation of the structure, activities, processes, information, people, behaviour, goals and constraints of a business, government or other enterprise. An enterprise model can be both descriptive and definitional and it may cover both ’what is’ and ’what should be’. The role of an enterprise model is to achieve model-driven enterprise design, analysis, control3 and evaluation. We will begin by considering these applications of enterprise modelling and the requirements that they impose on any formal approach to the representation and specification of enterprise models.

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    Michael Grunninger

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  1. Enterprise Integration Group, School of Computing and Information Technology, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith Univeristy, Nathan (Brisbane), Queensland, 4111, Australia

    Peter Bernus

  2. CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Division, Cnr Raglan and Albert Streets, Preston Vic 3072 Bag No. 9, Preston Vic, 3072, Australia

    Laszlo Nemes

  3. Information and Technology Management, University of Saarland, Postfach 151150, 66041, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Günter Schmidt

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Grunninger, M. (2003). Enterprise Modelling. In: Bernus, P., Nemes, L., Schmidt, G. (eds) Handbook on Enterprise Architecture. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24744-9_14

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