SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS IN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE THROUGH TRANSACTION AGENT MODELLING

Ivan Launders, Richard Hill, Simon Polovina

2010

Abstract

Enterprise architectures comprise of complex transactional information systems that perform repetitive and bespoke business transactions to meet business goals. Frameworks for enterprise architectures have been widely adopted to organise design thinking about the architectural components as well as to provide a description of architecture artefacts. We note various shortcomings of these framework approaches, giving rise to how semantics and pragmatics should evolve in enterprise architectures through Transaction Agent Modelling (TrAM). We accordingly outline steps for capturing and modelling the semantics in business transactions for enterprise architecture.

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Launders I., Hill R. and Polovina S. (2010). SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS IN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE THROUGH TRANSACTION AGENT MODELLING . In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO, ISBN 978-989-8425-26-3, pages 285-291. DOI: 10.5220/0003268302850291


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@conference{iciso10,
author={Ivan Launders and Richard Hill and Simon Polovina},
title={SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS IN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE THROUGH TRANSACTION AGENT MODELLING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO,},
year={2010},
pages={285-291},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003268302850291},
isbn={978-989-8425-26-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO,
TI - SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS IN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE THROUGH TRANSACTION AGENT MODELLING
SN - 978-989-8425-26-3
AU - Launders I.
AU - Hill R.
AU - Polovina S.
PY - 2010
SP - 285
EP - 291
DO - 10.5220/0003268302850291