Universal Enterprise Adaptive Object Model

Abstract

Keywords:Enterprise Engineering, Model, Meta-Model, Abstract Syntax, Concrete Syntax, Adaptive Object Model, DEMO. Abstract:In this paper we present a novel conceptual model that systematizes the integrated management and adaptation of: (1) enterprise models, (2) their representations, (3) their underlying meta-models, i.e., their abstract syntax and (4) the representation rules, i.e., concrete syntax for the respective models. All this for different modeling languages and also different versions of these languages. Thanks to our original use of the adaptive object model and type square patterns -normally applied in the context of software engineering, but here applied for enterprise engineering -we manage to provide a strong conceptual foundation for the development of software tools that will allow a precise and coherent specification of models and their evolution and also of meta-models and their evolution.