CIMOSA process model for enterprise modelling

CIMOSA is an open systems architecture for CIM developed by the ESPRIT Consortium AMICE. It structures a CIM system as a set of concurrent communicating processes executed by a finite set of functional entities. Modelling is based on a three-stage, process-based enterprise modelling approach (for business requirements definition, system design specification and implementation description). This paper presents the CIMOSA process model. It covers functional/behavioural, information, resource and organisation aspects of an integrated enterprise at each modelling level. The approach enforces the genericity and reusability principles by the use of generic building blocks to build partial models and particular models.