Supporting drafts for enterprise modeling

Enterprise models are built for representing one enterprise under study. These models require a lot of information, which frequently is not totally available before starting the construction of the model. Modelers create enterprise models based on information provided by different kinds of sources through observations. However, these sources could be insufficient or the information could be incomplete or incorrect regarding specific aspects of the enterprise. As a result, the construction process of enterprise models requires the creation of drafts of models allowing modelers to create an initial draft and to refine it when new and correct enterprise information is obtained. One draft of one enterprise model is a temporal model, which can include incomplete or imperfect elements. Drafts can include supporting data, which is additional data regarding the sources observed. In this paper we present a proposal for creating and managing drafts of enterprise models using ArchiMate as modeling language.