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Seventh International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'03)   p. 28
Towards a Language for Coherent Enterprise Architecture Descriptions
Henk Jonkers, Telematica Instituut
Buuren Buuren, Telematica Instituut
Farhad Arbab, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Frank de Boer, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Leiden, the Netherlands
Hans Bosma, Ordina Public Consulting, Rosmalen, the Netherlands
Hugo ter Doest, Telematica Instituut
Luuk Groenewegen, Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Leiden, the Netherlands
Juan Guillen Scholten, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Maria-Eugenia Iacob, Telematica Instituut
Wil Janssen, Telematica Instituut
Marc Lankhorst, Telematica Instituut
Diederik van Leeuwen, Telematica Instituut
Erik Proper, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Andries Stam, Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Leiden, the Netherlands; Ordina Public Consulting, Rosmalen, the Netherlands
Leon van der Torre, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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Abstract
A coherent description of architectures provides insight, enables communication among different stakeholders and guides complicated (business and ICT) change processes. Unfortunately, so far no architecture description language exists that fully enables integrated enterprise modelling. In this paper we focus on the requirements and design of such a language. This language defines generic, organisation-independent concepts that can be specialised or composed to obtain more specific concepts to be used within a particular organisation. It is not our intention to re-invent the wheel for each architectural domain: wherever possible we conform to existing languages or standards such as UML. We complement them with missing concepts, focussing on concepts to model the relationships among architectural domains. The concepts should also make it possible to define links between models in other languages. The relationship between architecture descriptions at the business layer and at the application layer (business-IT alignment) plays a central role.
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Citation:  Henk Jonkers, Buuren Buuren, Farhad Arbab, Frank de Boer, Marcello Bonsangue, Hans Bosma, Hugo ter Doest, Luuk Groenewegen, Juan Guillen Scholten, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Maria-Eugenia Iacob, Wil Janssen, Marc Lankhorst, Diederik van Leeuwen, Erik Proper, Andries Stam, Leon van der Torre, Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten, "Towards a Language for Coherent Enterprise Architecture Descriptions," edoc, p. 28,  Seventh International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'03),  2003