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The paper presents an evolved metamodel that has its origins in GERAM 1.6.3 but takes into considerations the needs of evolution of EA standards, including ISO 15704:2000 and ISO 42010:2000 – both currently under review.
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Bernus, P., Noran, O. (2010). A Metamodel for Enterprise Architecture. In: Bernus, P., Doumeingts, G., Fox, M. (eds) Enterprise Architecture, Integration and Interoperability. EAI2N 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 326. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15509-3_6
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