In this section we present our approach for the quantitative modelling of serviceoriented enterprise architectures expressed in the ArchiMate language. First we
show that ArchiMate models follow a certain structure that is explained by means
of an ‘analysis meta-model’. Our technique focuses on a subset of the ArchiMate
language, namely the modelling constructs encompassed by this simple metamodel. Then we clarify what the necessary quantitative input is for our analysis
technique. We also introduce an example that shows how quantitative information
can be attached to model elements and their relations and that will later also
illustrate the application of the algorithms.