Toward Structured Simulation of Enterprise Models

Today´s Enterprises exist in highly dynamic environment. While enterprise-architecture (EA) based models help in holistic treatment of enterprise aspects, they are static in nature and do not represent the complex dynamic behavior of enterprise as it evolves over time. Instead of relying on guideline for simulating EA models as in other approaches, we propose a comprehensive metamodel of system dynamics and provide relation-based mapping to EA metamodel. Ongoing explorations suggest that while several challenges of simulating enterprise aspects remain unaddressed, in the least we take a step toward making simulation of EA models more structured.