From inter-organizational business process models to service-oriented architecture modelsShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: Service Oriented Computing and Applications, ISSN 1863-2386, E-ISSN 1863-2394, Vol. 12, no 3-4, p. 227-245Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Today’s business processes become increasingly complex and often cross the boundaries of the organizations. On the one hand, to support their business processes, modern organizations use enterprise information systems that need to be aware of the organizations’ processes and contexts. Such systems are called Process-Aware Information System (PAIS). On the other hand, the service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a fast emerging architectural style that has been widely adopted by modern organizations to design and implement PAIS that support their business processes. This paper aims to bridge the gap between inter-organizational business processes and SOA-based PAISs that support them. It proposes a novel model-driven design method that generates SOA models expressed in SoaML taking the specification of collaborative business processes expressed in BPMN as input. We present the principles underlying the approach, the state of an ongoing implementation, and the results of two studies conducted to empirically validate the method in the context of ERP key processes. © 2018, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer London , 2018. Vol. 12, no 3-4, p. 227-245
Keywords [en]
BPMN, Business ontology, Business pattern, Business process, Model transformation, SOA, SoaML, Enterprise resource planning, Information services, Information systems, Information use, Collaborative business process, Enterprise information system, Interorganizational business process, Process-aware information systems, Service oriented architecture (SOA)
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-17283DOI: 10.1007/s11761-018-0246-0ISI: 000451766000004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85055945535OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-17283DiVA, id: diva2:1266661
2018-11-292018-11-292019-01-09Bibliographically approved