Modeling And Analyzing Imperfection In Enterprise Models

Nowadays, Enterprise Models are very important assets because they allow documentation, communication, and analysis about the current state and desirable future states of an enterprise. These models are built supported on certain information offered by enterprise sources with different characteristics. Nevertheless, this information can be insufficient, incomplete, or incorrect, as sources might fail to accurately describe certain facts of the enterprise. For this reason, we argue that Enterprise Models carry an inherent imperfection that affects the conclusions that we can draw from these models and their analysis. In this article, we propose an approach to allow supporting the understanding and correction of possible imperfection points in an enterprise model through measurements with quantitative analysis techniques, based on domain-specific and topological properties of the model. For this purpose, domain and topological analysis techniques have been developed on top of the tool iArchiMate, in order to support the identification and resolution of model imperfection.