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==Enterprise Modelling: objectives, constructs and ontologies==
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  Enterprise Modelling: objectives, constructs and ontologies

                                       François B. Vernadat

                            European Commission, DG EUROSTAT




Abstract. Enterprise Modelling (EM) is the art of externalising and formalising structural and
behavioural knowledge about how an organisation is organised, how it works and to some extent
how it performs. EM equally applies to a single organisation, a networked organisation, or part of
these. The aim is to build models to represent, analyse, design and simulate various facets of an
organisation (e.g. functional, information, resource or decisional aspects) as well as various flows
(e.g. control, information or material flows). Depending on their level of details and precision,
these models can serve as the basis for enterprise/business reengineering, they can be shared
among users as a means of communication or can support systems interoperability. They can even
be used to control enterprise operations. EM is at the crossroads of several disciplines including
systems engineering, organisation management, information systems engineering, control theory or
enterprise sociology, to name a few.The aim of the tutorial is to address the modelling construct
aspects of EM, leaving out issues dealing with modelling methodologies and model assessment
metrics. After a brief panorama of EM methods and EM tools available to the users, an informal
presentation of the essential modelling constructs will be made. This will cover constructs such as
Process/Sub-process, Event, Activity, Enterprise Object/Object View, Resource, Capability Set,
Organisation Unit/Cell. Then some more formal models will be presented (workflow models, Petri
nets, state-diagrams...). The last part of the tutorial will cover ontological aspects of Enterprise
Modelling. First, some ontology projects are reviewed (Enterprise Ontology, TOVE...) and
secondly an ontological definition of CIMOSA constructs will be given.

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