Model- and Architecture-Driven Development in the Context of Cross-Enterprise Business Process Engineering

Abstract

Modelling and enacting Cross-Enterprise Business Processes (CBPs) is a key ability for successfully setting up and managing virtual organizations, e.g. supply chains. In this paper we present and compare approaches for modelling CBPs based on the serviceoriented architecture paradigm. By embedding our overall approach into a model-and architecturedriven development perspective, we show how serviceoriented systems realising CBPs can be derived from business-level modelling.

A reference model-driven Architecture linking Business Processes and Services

“…Other proposals involved the definition of architectural approaches, such as in [30] where service brokers and a CIM description of the business are related, or in [31], where transformation patterns are used to design a service layer based on architectural pattern-based process integration, or in [32], where services to support BP collaborations are based on rules. Other proposals are contemporary to ours; such is the case with [33] (see [34]), which also proposes automating the navigation from BPMN2 to SoaML models, with mappings between elements, not using the QVT standard, and with limited tool support.…”

Model Transformation Recommendations for Service-Oriented Architectures

“…As a part of work the BPMN-to-UML transformations were defined and implemented using ATL. In (Roser, 2006) the model transformations from business level ARIS models to platform-independent ICT system models have been described.…”

A Model-Driven Approach for Monitoring Business Performance in Web Service Compositions

“…As shown in Figure 2, we generally complement an existing model-driven approach for developing WSC, as for instance presented in [10], by monitoring concerns through introducing additional metamodels and transformations. In this paper, we focus on a model-driven development process as proposed by IBM [11] [12].…”