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Working Conference on Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation

International Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research

PRET 2012, TEAR 2012: Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation pp 1–20Cite as

A Framework for Creating Pattern Languages for Enterprise Architecture

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 131))

Abstract

The use of patterns and pattern languages in enterprise architecture (EA) is a relatively novel concept. Although both the concepts of patterns and EA are over 30 years old, the notion of design patterns is hardly applied to EA. There is a lack of pattern collections specifically devoted to EA: only a small number of patterns and pattern collections specifically aimed at enterprise architecture can be found in the public domain. Furthermore no framework or method exist that would assist enterprise architects in creating patterns and pattern languages for EA. This paper aims to bridge this gap by proposing a pattern framework for enterprise architecture (PF4EA), which can guide the development of well-grounded patterns and pattern languages for the EA domain. The components of the frameworks are described as well as a method for its use.

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    Paula Kotzé

  2. School of ICT, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

    Paula Kotzé

  3. School of Computing, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 0003, South Africa

    Motse Tsogang

  4. Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa

    Alta van der Merwe

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  2. Industrial Information and Control Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Osquldas väg 10, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

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  3. Chair for Informatics 19 (sebis), Technische Universität München (TUM), Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Garching bei München, Germany

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Kotzé, P., Tsogang, M., van der Merwe, A. (2012). A Framework for Creating Pattern Languages for Enterprise Architecture. In: Aier, S., Ekstedt, M., Matthes, F., Proper, E., Sanz, J.L. (eds) Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation. PRET TEAR 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34163-2_1

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