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Enterprise architecture focuses on modelling different domains relevant for businesses or organisations. A major issue is how to express and maintain the relations between different modelling domains. Current architectural support focuses mainly on modelling techiques and language for single domains. For enterprise architectures it is important to have the flexibility to create cross domain models and views in which inter-relations are made explicit. Therefore, a language for enterprise architecture models should pay particular attention to the relations between domain models. In this paper we present a general approach to derive an operator that allows for the composition of relations in architecture description languages. This general approach opens the door for a number of interesting application areas, two of which are worked out in more detail: the creation of more modelling flexibility, by allowing to leave out certain details, and automated abstraction and complexity reduction of models facilitating stakeholder-specific visualisations. For a specific enterprise architecture modelling language, we explicitly derive this composition operator. Because of the specific properties of this operator, the transitive closure of the metamodel of this language can be determined.
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van Buuren, R., Jonkers, H., Iacob, ME., Strating, P. (2004). Composition of Relations in Enterprise Architecture Models. In: Ehrig, H., Engels, G., Parisi-Presicce, F., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Graph Transformations. ICGT 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3256. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30203-2_5
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