Compositional enterprise modeling and decision support

Abstract

In this article, we present a conceptual model and a web-based architecture for implementing an enterprise-wide modeling system for decision support. It describes a framework and develops a method that is aimed at effectively organizing, integrating, and reusing knowledge and model components from various sources across an organization in order to provide better knowledge access to decision makers. Given a query, the compositional modeling system responds with automatically building models for the described scenario by searching the organizational knowledge base and retrieving and integrating relevant knowledge components. We conclude with outlining an illustrative business example that demonstrates how our enterprise modeling system can be applied as useful tool for operational and strategic decision-making.