Design Policy Checking in ArchiMate. On the Cases Technology Policies in a Medical Center

EasyChair Preprint 4129

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an investigation on the automatic verification of organization-specific policies in the context of the Open Group enterprise model-ing language ArchiMate. This paper analyses a set of technical design policies from a hospital, reformulating them for automated checking within the hospital’s own architecture models. The policies have been modeled in a semantic language called Ampersand, which is based on relation algebra. This investigation has used Ampersand as an architecture checking tool. By analyzing 10 real-world policies from a hospital, we demonstrate that policies can be verified automatically in Ar-chiMate models. This work is a step towards the automated checking of architec-ture policies, which enhances the possibilities of ArchiMate beyond visualization only.

Keyphrases: Ampersand tool, ArchiMate, Enterprise Architecture, automated verification, policy

@booklet{EasyChair:4129,
  author    = {Stef Joosten and El Makki Haddouchi and Ella Roubtsova},
  title     = {Design Policy Checking in ArchiMate. On the Cases Technology Policies in a Medical Center},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 4129},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}