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This chapter presents GERAM, which is the result of a ten year project by the IFIP-IFAC Task Force generalising the contributions of a number of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. As a generalisation, GERAM allows different Frameworks to be assessed for completeness, as well as be further developed. The GERAM Framework includes a number of useful concepts in Enterprise Architecture which were earlier not precisely defined and this lack of definition prevented practitioners and researchers to exchange their results. GERAM is the basis of several international standards, most notably ISO 15704:2000 and ISO/DIS 19439. In addition, GERAM can also be used as an Enterprise Architecture Framework itself.
This is a minor revision of GERAM v1.6.3 - with some editorial changes and explanations that do not affect the technical content. GERAM V1.6.3 also appears as an Annex A to IS015704:2000.
The work of the IFIP Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration (1990–2002) was supported by a large number of members. Special thanks should go to Jim Nevins (USA) who originally proposed the establishment of this TF. Prof T.J.Williams (Purdue University) has lead the TF with great energy from the TF’s inception till 1996, and his efforts and leadership were invaluable to this group. The list of active members who attended the numerous meetings is long, and it is hard to make sure that there are no omissions made when we commend the efforts of Kurt Kosanke (CIMOSA Association), Jim Nell (NIST), Guy Doumeingts and David Chen (Bordeaux U), Francois Vernadat (U Metz), Richard Weston (U Loughborough), David Shorter (ITFocus), Yoshiro Fukuda (Hosei U), Laszlo Nemes (CSIRO), Jacob Vlietstra (formerly AT&T), Gus Olling (Daimler Chrysler), Michael J Rodd (UC Swansea), Ljubo Vlacic (Griffith U), Johan Vesterager (TU Denmark), Michael Petit (U Namour), Hong Li (Waterlogic), Atsui Inamoto (Mitsubishi E), Ziquiong Deng (Narvik Inst T), Zenjin Han (Tsinghua U), Yuilu Chen (Tshinghua U), Arturo Molina (U Monterrey), Bruce Gutheridge (Systemhouse), Michael Gruninger (U Toronto/NIST), Luis Basanez (UP Catalunya), Marco Garetti (U Milan), Mark Fox (U Toronto), Pinto Fereira (U Porto), John Edwards (Loughborough U), Jochem Roland (IPK Berlin), Christopher Bussler (Oracle), Jim Brown (UC Galway), Gunter Schmidt (U Saarlandes), Sam Bansal (SAP), Cheng Leong Ang (Gintic), Brane Kalpic (ETI), Yusaku Shibata (Nagoya U), James Brosvic (Honeywell), Bruno Vallespir (Bordeaux U) and Dick Zoetekouw (AT&T), F Gh Filip (ICI Inst.), Geza Haidegger and Gyorgy Kovacs (SzTAKI), Peter Kopacek ( TU Wien), Angel Ortiz (U Valencia), Ajit Pardasani (NRC Canada), Norbert Rozenich (BMf Wien). We also thank other members of the Task Force who supported the work but have not been able to participate the meetings: S.K. Banerjee (U Strathclyde), V Charpulat (EERIE), F Fadei, Joel Favrel (AIPRAO Lyon), M Jarke (GMD), HJ Molstad (Standards Denmark), J Mylopoulos (U Toronto), Mihai Avram (IPA-SA), Leo Obrst (MITRE)
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IFIP-IFAC Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration. (2003). GERAM: The Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology. 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_2
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