The aim of begin adaptive is to allow an enterprise architecture (EA) to be resilient to the changing environments surrounding and electronic based organization.
First of all, the EA may encompasse the following layers:
1.strategic architecture
2.business processes architecture
3.information architecture
4.aplication architecture
5.technological architecture
Each layer offers different tools to achieve adaptiveness. Some examples mechanisms regarding adaptiveness are:
generalization
specialization
reuse
consistency
correctness
modularity
formalization
extensibility
rastreability
A methodological approach to clear understand the structure and dynamics of AIS comprises:
AIS observability
AIS qualities identification (based in software engineering approaches[1])
AIS qualities evaluation (based in software engineering approaches [2])
AIS design (based in best-practices from industry and academy)
AIS controllability
Application fields examples that take benefit from AIS:
project management - reusing the former IS architecture for other projects
software industry - specializing the software whenever new requirements are launched
