Fundamental Realization Strategies for Multi-view Specification Environments

Abstract

All Enterprise Architecture Modeling (EAM) approaches revolve around the use of multiple, inter-related views to describe the properties of a system and its surrounding environment - that is, they are multi-view specification (MVS) approaches. However, there is still little consensus on how such modeling environments should be realized and on the pros and cons of the different fundamental design choices involved in building them. In this paper we identify the different design choices put forward in the literature, evaluate their mutual compatibility, and discuss the extent to which they scale up to large enterprise systems. Finally we present some additional choices and outline some of the key features that future multi-view modeling environments should ideally support.