Efficient: A Toolset for Building Trusted B2B Transactions

Mammar, Amel; Ramel, Sophie; Grégoire, Bertrand; Schmitt, Michael N.; Guelfi, Nicolas

doi:10.1007/11431855_30

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“…In order to validate these models, and more precisely to validate that these models correspond precisely to what the business experts are expecting, we propose an innovative validation approach based on an existing method and toolset, that we are currently adapting to service-orientation, called "Efficient" (see [20], or the Efficient website http://efficient.citi.tudor.lu). Efficient proposes an animation tool that is generated based on the UML models, and that allows business experts to play the choreography of exchanges, as if the process was already implemented.…”

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“…In particular it has developed and experimented a methodology called Efficient [20] supported by a toolset for the design, simulation and validation of the exchange of electronic messages between different e-commerce stakeholders. The primary use for this toolset is to help large networked organizations which have complex e-messaging and transactions requirements in the validation, through an interactive simulation, of their flows of messages including their structures and contents before beginning any IT development.…”

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Capturing and Aligning Assurance Requirements for Business Services Systems

Dubois¹,

Kubicki²,

Ramel³

et al. 2012

Business System Management and Engineering

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Abstract. In this chapter we introduce and illustrate a systematic and rigorous approach for the elicitation and the modelling of assurance requirements inherent to business services offered by a service system. The approach is based on guidelines provided by the ISO 15504 norm, which is applicable for the assessment of any type of process in order to check its compliance against assurance requirements. We explain how 15504 can be applied in the context of business services with the support provided by goal-oriented requirements engineering techniques like i*. Its use is illustrated through the handling of an excerpt of a real case from the construction sector complemented with expertise developed in IT service level management. While this chapter is focusing on the capture of business requirements and their transformation into a business oriented solution, we also briefly explain how this business view is part of a more complete methodology also encompassing the service value and the service software views associated with a service system.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Capturing and Aligning Assurance Requirements for Business Services Systems

Dubois¹,

Kubicki²,

Ramel³

et al. 2012

Business System Management and Engineering

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“…Governance Responsibility [57,59,77,94,168] Implementation Responsibility [6,66] Rate of Change [35,40,61,66,72,73,75,83,84,89,91,102,103,107,108,134,135,153,168,172] Reusability [59,70,75,85,88,91,108,108,110,111,123] Rule Source [93,177] Scope of Impact [6,66] …”

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Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules

Wang¹

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Two major components in current information system architectures in terms of modeling business requirements are business processes and business rules, both of which focus on creating a representation of the organization's policies and practices. The conceptual and pragmatic overlap between business process models and business rules indicates a need to model the two related aspects together. Over the past two decades the need to model business rules in an integrated manner with business processes has been argued theoretically as well as validated empirically, and a variety of integration methods have been developed. However, the following questions have not yet been answered by current research. First, while researchers have argued that integrated modeling of business process models and business rules can improve the understanding of business processes, this proposition has neither been theoretically analyzed, nor empirically evaluated.Second, there are situations in which a business rule is better modelled independently of a business process model, but also situations in which it is more appropriate to integrate the rule with a business process model. An important aspect of integrated modeling is the understanding of such situations and how they influence business rule representation.Thus, the aim of this thesis is to address the above two questions and then develop a decision framework that guides modelers on whether and how to integrate a business rule with a business process model. Accordingly, the thesis has the following three objectives:(1) theoretically analyze and empirically evaluate if and when business rule integration can improve business process model understanding, (2) identify and evaluate factors that will influence the decision of whether or not a business rule should be integrated with a business process model, and (3) develop a decision framework that guides modelers on whether or not, and if so how, to integrate a business rule with a business process model.

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“…The capture of these requirements is supported by the Efficient method and supporting toolset. Efficient supports the modeling of electronic transactions, and allows business experts to validate these models by an interactive "animation" tool for playing the modeled transaction ( [10]). Recently we have extended Efficient to cope with services specification, i.e.…”

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“…Then, in section III, the second component of the framework is explaining how the business requirements are progressively refined into software service requirements, focusing on the interactions and information exchanged amongst the actors of the service transaction. This second component of the framework is supported by the Efficient [10] toolset, a specific customized UML-based platform supporting the formal description of the semantics of information services interactions as well as their verification and validation through interactive animation.…”

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Towards a Design Method Supporting the Alignment between Business and Software Services

Ramel¹,

Grandry²,

Dubois³

2009

2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference

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This paper proposes and illustrates an approach to identify and specify requirements on information-based business services and their associated derived software services. The approach proposes first to identify business services by modeling business requirements using the goal oriented modeling notation i*. Then, in a second phase, the identified services are refined according to these requirements using UML activity and class diagrams. This specification is based on a method and a supporting toolset, called "Efficient". The approach is illustrated through the handling of a case study in the tourism sector.I.

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Efficient: A Toolset for Building Trusted B2B Transactions

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Capturing and Aligning Assurance Requirements for Business Services Systems

Capturing and Aligning Assurance Requirements for Business Services Systems

Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules

Towards a Design Method Supporting the Alignment between Business and Software Services

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