Distributed client/server architecture for CIMOSA-based enterprise components

A repository and a distributed architecture for enterprise modeling components (EMC) are proposed. The components are used by enterprise designers to (re)engineer particular business models. Each component represents a chunk of business knowledge on some parts of an enterprise or of some enterprise network. The repository ensures that enterprise components can be shared by the actors of the enterprise network. The meta-model that supports these models is formalized using enterprise modeling language constructs (i.e., CIMOSA business concepts). The paper presents a distributed client/server architecture to support the approach for which business servers, applications servers and client systems are discussed. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.