Next Generation Enterprise Modelling - The Role of Organizational Theory and Multi-Agent Systems

This position paper proposes that the current enterprise modeling approaches are overly reliant on the know how or tacit knowledge of enterprise architects for addressing organizational challenges such as business-IT alignment. Furthermore, current modeling languages only encourage linear thinking. By drawing upon existing research on (computational) organization theory and multi-agent systems, we propose implementation requirements for a next generation enterprise modeling language that supports agent based simulation.