Executable Semantic Graphs for Enterprise Digital Twins

A formal framework for mapping high-level business process architectures directly to stateful execution graphs with real-time scenario simulation.

Enterprise architecture (EA) modeling frameworks traditionally enforce a strict division between static domain documentation and dynamic runtime execution. We present a formal framework for compiling heterogeneous architectural views into a single, strongly-typed Executable Semantic Graph (ESG).


1. Formal Mathematical Definition

Let an Executable Semantic Graph GG be defined as a 5-tuple:

G=(V,E,S,W,δ)G = (V, E, \mathbf{S}, \mathbf{W}, \delta)

Where:

  • V={v1,v2,,vn}V = \{v_1, v_2, \dots, v_n\} represents the set of operational semantic nodes.
  • EV×VE \subseteq V \times V represents directed execution edges.
  • S:VSstate\mathbf{S}: V \rightarrow S_{state} maps each node to its internal queue state matrix.
  • W:ER+\mathbf{W}: E \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+ defines transition weights (routing probabilities).
  • δ:(V,Sstate,Δt)Sstate\delta: (V, S_{state}, \Delta t) \rightarrow S_{state}' is the state transition transfer function over time quantum Δt\Delta t.

2. Structural Layer Compaction

To eliminate data redundancy across separate enterprise modeling standards, ESG compiles visual projections into unified node primitives[^1]:

Source Model View Primary Primitive ESG Mapping Target Runtime Behavioral Trait
BPMN 2.0 Service Task / Sub-Process Node.Compute Latency distribution & Queue bounds
ArchiMate 3.1 Application Interface Node.Gateway Multiplexing & Rate limiting
UML 2.5 State Transition Edge.Conditional Boolean route evaluation
VSM (Value Stream) Processing Time (TpT_{p}) Node.Metric Accumulator & Wastage tracking

3. Haskell Type System Specification

The core graph evaluation kernel operates on immutable algebraic data types to guarantee deterministic state transitions across parallel worker threads:

module EdgeNode.Core.GraphEngine where

import Data.Map.Strict (Map)
import Data.Text (Text)

type NodeId = Text
type Weight = Double

data NodeState 
  = Active { queueLength :: !Int, avgLatencyMs :: !Double }
  | Degrading { errorRate :: !Double }
  | Saturated
  deriving (Eq, Show)

data SemanticNode = SemanticNode
  { nodeId    :: !NodeId
  , nodeLabel :: !Text
  , state     :: !NodeState
  , capacity  :: !Int
  } deriving (Eq, Show)

-- | Evaluates next state transition vector over time step Delta T
stepNode :: SemanticNode -> Double -> SemanticNode
stepNode node deltaT
  | capacity node <= 0 = node { state = Saturated }
  | otherwise          = node { state = Active (capacity node - 1) (deltaT * 0.85) }

How to Cite

Kretov, I., & Rostova, E. (2026). Executable Semantic Graphs for Enterprise Digital Twins. EdgeNode Systems Research, 4(2), 112–129.