Definition of a Description Language for Business Service Decomposition

Lê, Lam-Son; Ghose, Aditya; Morrison, Evan

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14319-9_8

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“…3) Towards Establishing Strategic Service Correlations: In our group, we have developed languages dedicated to the description of business services [17], [18]. A business service is described in terms of pre-condition, post-condition, input, output and other metrics.…”

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Correlating Business Objectives with Services: An Ontology-Driven Approach

Lê

Ghose

Krishnan

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing

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Ensuring that the IT/business functions of an organization realize its business objectives has long been recognized as a critically important question. This paper reports on a project that seeks to overturn established management orthodoxy by establishing that business objectives can be adequately modeled by leveraging a domain ontology and that methodological and tool support can be provided for the task of correlating the objectives of an organization and its service offerings. This paper presents an interim report from this project that describes how to leverage a domain ontology in i) building business objective/goal models in a top-down manner (required to be able to refine these to a level where there could be an ontological match between the languages used to describe objectives and services); ii) assessing the degree of ontological match between low-level objectives and business services as a step towards an automated framework for establishing strategic service alignment. We provide a brief illustration of our in-progress implementation within a toolkit called ServAlign.

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Section: Algorithm 2: Build An Strategy Model For a Given List Of Strmentioning

confidence: 99%

Correlating Business Objectives with Services: An Ontology-Driven Approach

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Krishnan

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing

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“…The topmost layer is the Strategy layer, and it represents the following: businesss goals that the VE must fulfill, and policies and business rules of the VE and its participating entities that need to be taken into account while fulfilling the goals. The next lower layer is the Operational layer, which represents the Business Services [6] that each partner offers, and also describes how they are integrated to provide the overall functionality needed to fulfill the business goals specified at the Strategy layer. The actual operations executed and data exchanged are represented at the bottom layer, i.e., Service layer, which is the IT realization of the abstract concepts in the upper two layers.…”

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“…For our model, we adopt the 3-layer approach that consists of the strategy layer, the operational layer and the service layer [4,5]. The strategy layer models the goals and business rules that define the behavior of the VE and its participants; the operational layer defines the business services [6] that are an abstraction of the actual process and service implementations that form the service layer. The unique feature of our approach is the usage of (business) artifacts [7] to model process implementations at the service layer.…”

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Towards an Architectural Framework for Service-Oriented Enterprises

Narendra¹,

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Ghose

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Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2012 Workshops

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Business enterprises today are increasingly being modeled as serviceoriented enterprises (SOEs). That is, they are increasingly part of collaborations with other enterprises, with such collaborations being fulfilled by the exchange of business services among the participants. To that end, there is now a felt need for developing formal models of such collaborations, by leveraging past work on Enterprise Architecture (EA) models. In this paper, we present an architectural framework for modeling such collaborations as virtual enterprises (VEs), since these collaborations involve interactions among multiple enterprises. Our framework is modeled by treating the VE as an enterprise itself, but with special characteristics that distinguish it from regular enterprises, viz., nature of collaborations among the participating enterprises, extent of their participation, and conflicts among the participants. The latter characteristic arises due to the autonomy of the participants and the dynamic nature of inter-organizational business interactions, and is especially crucial for VE modeling. Throughout the paper, we illustrate our architectural framework with a realistic running example. We also present and discuss some future challenges regarding modeling dynamic behavior in the VE, in particular, conflict modeling & resolution among the participating enterprises.

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“…Also, we briefly describe the two services description languages USDL [7] and BSDL [8] that offer service descriptions from a purely business perspective. Discovery scenarios typically occur when one is trying to reuse an existing piece of functionality (represented as a Web service) towards building new or enhanced business processes.…”

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“…On the other side, BSDL [8] addresses the description of both functional and non fonctional properties of a business service. BSDL is similar to our canonical model; both of them provide formal semantics based on a logic formalism.…”

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An Enhanced Framework for Semantic Web Service Discovery

Ayadi

Ahmed

2011

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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The paper describes an ontology-based framework for semantic Web services description and discovery. The proposed framework relies on a lightweight and minimal description model allowing to describe services in terms of a set of functional and non-functional properties. Functional properties describe services capabilities in terms of Inputs, Outputs, Preconditions and Effects (IOPE). Non-functional properties describe services in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) properties. We propose an enhanced discovery approach in which Web services are discovered based on their functional and non functional properties. The enhanced discovery approach proposed is twofold. First, the approach relies on deductive relaxation of discovery queries based on semantic service descriptions and domain knowledge (domain ontology) to select a set of services that match a discovery query with different matching degrees. Second, non-fonctional properties are incorporated into the Web service discovery mechanism to generate a partially ordered list of services that meet user functional and non-functional requirements.

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Definition of a Description Language for Business Service Decomposition

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Correlating Business Objectives with Services: An Ontology-Driven Approach

Correlating Business Objectives with Services: An Ontology-Driven Approach

Towards an Architectural Framework for Service-Oriented Enterprises

An Enhanced Framework for Semantic Web Service Discovery

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