Enterprise architectures: documentation views, evaluation tools and design alternative enumeration

Author

Couretas, J.M. ; Kim, Doohwan

Author_Institution

Lockheed Martin Adv. Concepts, Crystal, VA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

3654

Abstract

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), a documentation tool used to portray operational concepts and supporting system details, is presently void of a malleable design description that structures processes and technologies for automatic enumeration of alternatives. DoDAF architecture views contain entity-like nodes; each representing documented processes and technologies. The System Entity Structure (SES) Enterprise Alternative Evaluator (SEAE) leverages both DoDAF view nodes and computer science based production research to provide an evaluation technique that generates an operational concept´s alternative architectures for performance estimation.

Keywords

commerce; Department of Defense Architecture Framework; DoDAF architecture; design enumeration; design evaluation; documentation tool; documentation views; enterprise alternative evaluator; enterprise architecture; entity-like nodes; evaluation technique; evaluation tools; system entity structure; Cities and towns; Computer architecture; Computer science; Documentation; Frequency; Government; Information technology; Production systems; Road transportation; Software architecture; Design Enumeration; Design Evaluation; DoDAF; SEAE; SES;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9298-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571715

Filename

1571715