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Currently, several enterprise architecture frameworks exist, and there is a need to be able to communicate about them. To this end we have proposed an Architecture Framework Ontology (AFO) providing characteristics to be assigned to the framework under consideration. AFO is then used to characterise and compare six existing frameworks, and results from this task are presented.
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- Enterprise Architecture
- Architecture Domain
- Methodological Characteristic
- Architecture Product
- Architecture Description
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Ohren, O.P. (2005). An Ontological Approach to Characterising Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. In: Bernus, P., Fox, M. (eds) Knowledge Sharing in the Integrated Enterprise. DIISM ICEIMT 2004 2004. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 183. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29766-9_11
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