Bommel, Patrick vanBuitenhuis, PieterHoppenbrouwers, StijnProper, ErikReichert, ManfredStrecker, StefanTurowski, Klaus2019-05-062019-05-062007978-3-88579-213-0https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/22190Increasingly, organizations make use of enterprise architectures to direct the development of the enterprise as a whole and its IT portfolio in particular. In this paper we investigate the regulative nature of enterprise architecture. We aim to develop a fundamental understanding of the regulative needs that underly an enterprise architecture, and then take these needs as a starting point to arrive at requirements on the language (architecture principles) used to denote enterprise architectures. We furthermore discuss the process of formulating principles as well as their semantics.enText/Conference Paper1617-5468