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10th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'06)
Extended Influence Diagrams for Enterprise Architecture Analysis
Hong Kong, China
October 16-October 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2558-X
Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Robert Lagerstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Per Narman, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Marten Simonsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
The discipline of enterprise architecture advocates the use of models to support decision-making on enterprisewide information system issues. In order to provide such support, enterprise architecture models should be amenable to analyses of various properties, as e.g. the level of enterprise information security. This paper proposes the use of a formal language to support such analysis. Such a language needs to be able to represent causal relations between, and definitions of, various concepts as well as uncertainty with respect to both concepts and relations. To support decision-making properly, the language must also allow the representation of goals and decision alternatives. This paper evaluates a number of languages with respect to these requirements, and selects influence diagrams for further consideration. The influence diagrams are then extended to fully satisfy the requirements. The syntax and semantics of the extended influence diagrams are detailed in the paper, and their use is demonstrated in an example.
Citation:
Pontus Johnson, Robert Lagerstrom, Per Narman, Marten Simonsson, "Extended Influence Diagrams for Enterprise Architecture Analysis," edoc, pp.3-12, 10th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'06), 2006
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