Enterprise architecture analysis - development of a Java based assessment tool

Background

During the last decade, enterprise architecture has grown into an established approach for holistic management of the information systems in an organization. Enterprise architecture is model based, in the sense that diagrammatic descriptions of the systems and their environment constitute the core of the approach. A number of enterprise architecture initiatives have been proposed, including The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), the Zachman Framework, Intelligrid and more. Enterprise architecture analysis is the application of property assessment criteria on enterprise architecture models. On the department Industrial Information and Control Systems frameworks, theories, and meta-models are developed to facilitate enterprise architecture analysis.

The Master Thesis Project

The purpose of this master thesis project is to develop tool support for making enterprise architecture assessments. This involves creating support for the creation of enterprise architecture models from a metamodel and collected evidence; from this an value of the assessed property/properties is calculated. The tool development is explorative since it aims to implement research conducted within the department and the tool will therefore be implemented iteratively. Although the core of the master thesis project is programming, it will be performed in collaboration with researchers and provide both insight in modelling and enterprise architecture assessments.
Suitable background of the applicant is students with both knowledge and interest in object oriented software development, preferably in Java. The master thesis project is performed in Stockholm and covers 20 weeks of work (30 ECTS credits) and is expected to start during spring 2007.

Organization and Contact

The project is preformed on the department of Industrial Information and Control Systems (www.ics.kth.se) at the Royal Institute of Technology. For more information, please contact:
Erik Johansson, e-mail: [email protected], phone: 08-790 68 26