ABSTRACT
Model management and analytics (MMA) aims to use models and related artifacts to derive relevant information to support the decision-making process of organizations. Various different models, as well as analytics approaches, could be identified. In addition, MMA systems have different requirements and, as such, apply different architecture design configurations. Hence, a proper architecture for the MMA system is important to achieve the provided requirements. So far, no specific reference architecture has been defined that is dedicated to MMA in particular. In this chapter, we borrow from and elaborate on existing data analytics architectures to devise and discuss a reference architecture framework that is customized for MMA. We discuss the current key data analytics reference architectures in the literature and the key requirements for MMA. Subsequently, we provide the approach for deriving an application architecture of the MMA. We illustrate the framework using a real-world example.
