A new model for designing uncertain enterprise architecture

• Main Authors: Jamshid Afshani, Ali Harounabadi, Mashallah Abbasi Dezfouli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2012-04-01
• Series: Management Science Letters
• Subjects: Uncertain Enterprise Architecture; C4ISR Framework Products; Fuzzy-UML
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2012_5.pdf

C4ISR framework describes architecture in three views of information architecture and defines a set of products, which are main outputs of enterprise architecture design. Formats and templates, which are presented for C4ISR products, cannot describe uncertainty in process or data. Meanwhile, uncertainty in many information systems is unavoidable and using the concept of fuzzy numbers in architecture design helps architects handle uncertainty in process and data of organization. In this paper, we present a new template based on fuzzy-UML concept for some of C4ISR products such as Logical Data Model (OV-7), Operational Event/Trace Description (OV-6c) and Systems Event/Trace Description (SV-10c). To explain further, fictional Fast Pass system used at OilCo gas stations is used to demonstrate details of our proposed model.