Inference Rules of Semantic Dependencies in the Enterprise Modelling

  • Authors:

  • Remigijus Gustas

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Systems, Karlstad University, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden, Remigijus.Gustas@kau.se

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the fourth SoMeT_W05
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Enterprise models should have a capacity to describe consistently business processes across organisational and technical system boundaries. It would help system designers to understand why the technical system components are useful and how they fit into the overall organisational system. The implementation bias of many information system methodologies is a big problem for inconsistency and integrity control. The same implementation oriented foundations are often used in system analysis and design phase, without rethinking these concepts fundamentally. Common repository of most CASE tools does not guarantee the consistency of enterprise architectures for a reason that interplay among static and dynamic dependencies is not available. Enterprise modelling and integration should stick to the basic conceptualisation principle that prescribes analysis of only conceptually relevant aspects. It cannot be influenced by any implementation details. The consistency problems are best detectable and traceable at the conceptual layer. In this study on semantic dependencies, we demonstrate how various fundamental concepts from different classes of models can be interlinked and analysed together. An important result of this study is a set of inference rules. The inference capability is an intrinsic feature of logical approaches, but the conventional methods of system analysis have not yet dealt in sufficient detail with the inference principles.