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MFI Based Interoperability Measurement of Business Models in Enterprises

LI Zhao, ZHAO Yi, LIANG Peng and HE Ke-qing   

  • Online:2018-11-14 Published:2018-11-14

Abstract: Various business models of enterprise exist and are currently used in industry,whilst their definitions,structures,functions,and supporting tools are quite different from each other.For interoperability,the partial semantic interoperability between heterogeneous business models is challenging to achieve.Almost all of the enterprise business models can be described from the four major dimensions:Role,Goal,Process,Service(RGPS),consequently in this paper,an enterprise business model is actually a specific RGPS model.An approach for measuring the interoperability of business models in enterprises was proposed.At first,the RGPS interoperability features framework was constructed based on Meta-model Framework of Interoperability(MFI),and it was specified to be the interoperability features set of RGPS models.Secondly,the interoperability features set and a mathematical method were proposed to identify and quantify a RGPS model and its interoperability features,and then the model instance of the RGPS model was produced.Next,we calculated the similarity between two model instances,and obtained the measuring results of interoperability between corresponding RGPS models,which is used to build the interoperability measurement matrix of RGPS models set.At last,the approach was applied to quantify the interoperability of typical business models in the enterprises belonging to different domains,which facilitates and guides the collaborative interoperability of the business models in different domains.

Key words: Enterprises business models,Interoperability measurement,MFI,Different domains

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