of abstraction, or modeling, is a major element in Enterprise Engineering. Enterprise engineering deals with the analysis, design, implementation and operation of an enterprise. T...
: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have been established as an IT strategy to support the on demand goal of business agility. Web services standards and their implementations ...
Increasingly, distributed systems are being constructed by composing a number of discrete components. This practice, termed composition, is particularly prevalent within the Web s...
An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a n...
Enterprise design knowledge is currently descriptive, ad hoc, or pre-scientific. One reason for this state of affairs in enterprise design is that existing approaches lack an adeq...