Modeling and Specification of Collaborative Business Processes with a MDA Approach and a UML Profile

Villarreal, Pablo David; Salomone, Enrique; Chiotti, Omar

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“…Thus, all the existing UP-ColBPIP models can be used to enact CBPs in a dynamic way. In addition, our proposal is consistent and integrated with the proposed model-driven development approaches for CBPs and B2B information systems [5], [1].…”

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“…A B2B collaboration entails a process-oriented integration among heterogeneous and autonomous organizations which must be achieved at a business level and at a technological level [1]. Inter-organizational collaboration is carried out through the execution of collaborative business processes.…”

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“…Inter-organizational collaboration is carried out through the execution of collaborative business processes. A collaborative business process defines the global view of the interactions among enterprises to achieve common business goals [1], [2]. The design and implementation of collaborative business processes (CBPs) implies new challenges, such as participants autonomy, decentralized management, peer-to-peer interactions, negotiation, and alignment between the business solution and the technological solution [3], [4].…”

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“…Since the features of software agents such as autonomy, heterogeneity, decentralization, coordination and social interactions are also desirable for organizations involved in B2B collaborations [1], the use of this technology can be considered as appropriate for this domain. The use of software agents to perform CBPs helps to improves process integration, interoperability, reusability and adaptability [9], [8], [10].…”

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An Agent-Based B2B Collaboration Platform for Executing Collaborative Business Processes

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2010

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Abstract. Nowadays, organizations establish Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations with their business partners. Inter-organizational collaboration is carried out through the execution of collaborative business processes. Organizations are requiring and undergoing the setting up of dynamic B2B collaborations, instead of conducting face-to-face negotiations and agreements for executing collaborative processes. This implies that business partners, maybe without a previous relationship, agree dynamically on the execution of collaborative processes based on predefined models of these processes. In this work, we propose an B2B collaboration platform which provides agent-based systems and interaction mechanisms in order to enable organizations to establish dynamic agreements with their partners and carry out the decentralized execution of collaborative processes. Agents use models of collaborative processes to enact them in a dynamic way. The role an organization performs in a collaborative process is translated into a Petri Net model that a collaboration agent interpret to execute the process.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Agent-Based B2B Collaboration Platform for Executing Collaborative Business Processes

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Chiotti

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2010

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“…A UML Profile for Collaborative Business Processes based on Interaction Protocols (UP-ColBPIP) has been proposed as a language for modeling collaborative processes [32]. UP-ColBPIP allows the association of a speech act with business messages representing the intention that a trading partner has with regard to Electronic Business Documents (EBDs) sent in those messages.…”

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Adding Semantics to Electronic Business Documents Exchanged in Collaborative Commerce Relations

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J. theor. appl. electron. commer. res.

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In order to support the execution of collaborative business processes, trading partners have to exchange electronic business documents. Since each partner has its own systems and culture, they could use different terms and metadata structures to represent their data, even when referring to the same domain of interest. Then, an appropriate approach for defining the semantics of these documents is required to achieve semantic interoperability. To this aim, a number of approaches have been proposed based on the use of a single domain ontology. These approaches imply the imposition of a global meaning of terms, which are used to represent the entities of a domain. This goes in opposition to one of the aims of trading partners, which is to participate in collaborative business processes without losing their autonomy and privacy. In this scenario, it is necessary to define a framework for allowing trading partners to exchange information without imposing a global meaning of it. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed in order to define the semantics of the electronic business documents interchanged between trading partners in a collaborative relationship. This approach is based on the idea of making some domain features, which are generally implicit, explicit in the domain ontologies. An application example of this approach is also presented.

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Transforming Collaborative Business Process Models into Web Services Choreography Specifications

Villarreal

Salomone

Chiotti

2006

Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services

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Languages for web services choreography are becoming more and more important for B2B integration. However, the development of web services-based systems is complex and time-consuming. Enterprises have to agree on collaborative business processes and then derive their respective web services choreographies in order to implement B2B collaboration. To support it, this paper presents a MDA approach for collaborative processes. We describe the components and techniques of this approach. We show how collaborative process models defined with the UP-ColBPIP language can be used as the main development artifact in order to derive choreography specifications based on WS-CDL. The transformations to be carried out are also discussed. The main advantage of this MDA approach is that it guarantees that the generated web services choreographies fulfill the collaborative processes agreed between the partners in a business level.

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Modeling and Specification of Collaborative Business Processes with a MDA Approach and a UML Profile

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An Agent-Based B2B Collaboration Platform for Executing Collaborative Business Processes

An Agent-Based B2B Collaboration Platform for Executing Collaborative Business Processes

Adding Semantics to Electronic Business Documents Exchanged in Collaborative Commerce Relations

Transforming Collaborative Business Process Models into Web Services Choreography Specifications

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