APPLYING ENTERPRISE MODELS AS INTERFACE FOR INFORMATION SEARCHING

Abstract: Nowadays, more and more companies use Enterprise Models to integrate and coordinate their business processes with the aim of remaining competitive on the market. Consequently, Enterprise Models play a critical role in this integration enabling to improve the objectives of the enterprise, and ways to reach them in a given period of time. Through Enterprise Models, companies are able to improve the management of their operations, actors, processes and also to improve communication within the organisation. This thesis describes another use of Enterprise Models. In this work, we intend to apply Enterprise Models as interface for information searching. The underlying needsfor this project lay in the fact that we would like to show that Enterprise Models canbe more than just models but it can be used in a more dynamic way which is through a software program for information searching. The software program aimed at, first,extracting the information contained in the Enterprise Models (which are stored into aXML file on the system). Once the information is extracted, it is used to express a query which will be sent into a search engine to retrieve some relevant document to the query and return them to the user. The thesis was carried out over an entire academic semester. The results of this workare a report which summarizes all the knowledge gained into the field of the study. A software has been built to serve as a proof of testing the theories.