Executable modeling method based on the ROAD-CPN business architecture

Abstract

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) business architecture is a benchmark for data architecture, application architecture and technical architecture, and occupies a guiding role in the design of enterprise system architecture. However, due to the limitation of its description form, it cannot analyze the dynamic characteristics of the business architecture. In this paper, a colored petri net (CPN) executable model generation method based on ROAD business architecture is proposed. The method is based on the four types of models proposed by the division of the ACF meta-model of TOGAF business architecture - Rule Model (RM), Organization Model (OM), Activity Model (AM) and Data Model (DM), establishes the correspondence between the different description forms of the four types of models and the CPN modeling language, and then proposes the five-stage modeling method of executable models with RM, OM, AM and DM as the main body. Finally, the feasibility of the method is verified by taking the business architecture of the kindergarten intelligent morning inspection robot system as an example. It achieves creation of CPN executable model and breaks the limitations of business architecture’s modeling languages and CPN model’s modeling language.