MFI Based Interoperability Measurement of Business Models in Service-Based Enterprises

Various business models of service-based enterprise exist and are currently used in industry, whilst their definitions, structures, functions, and supporting tools are quite different from each other. For interoperability, the partial semantic interoperability between heterogeneous business models is challenging to achieve. Almost all of the enterprise business models can be described from the four major dimensions: Role, Goal, Process, Service (RGPS), consequently in this paper, a business model of service-based enterprise is actually a specific RGPS model, an approach for measuring the interoperability of RGPS models is proposed. At first, the RGPS interoperability features framework is constructed based on Meta-model Framework of Interoperability (MFI), and it is specified to be the interoperability features set of RGPS models, secondly, the interoperability features set and a mathematical method are proposed to identify and quantify a RGPS model and its interoperability features, then the model instance of the RGPS model is produced, next, we calculate the similarity between two model instances, and obtain the measuring results of interoperability between corresponding RGPS models, which is used to build the interoperability measurement matrix of RGPS models set.