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

2011 ◽  
pp. 13-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo David Villarreal ◽  
Enrique Salomone ◽  
Omar Chiotti
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Uml Profile ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Interaction Protocols ◽  
Business To Business

This chapter describes the application of MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and UML for the modeling and specification of collaborative business processes, with the purpose of enabling enterprises to establish Business-to-Business collaborations. The proposed MDA approach provides the components and techniques required for the development of collaborative processes, from their conceptual modeling to the specifications of these processes and the partners’ interfaces in a B2B standard. As part of this MDA approach, a UML Profile is provided, which extends the semantics of UML 2 to support the analysis and design of collaborative processes. This UML Profile is based on the use of interaction protocols to model collaborative processes. The application of this UML Profile in a case study is presented. Also, an overview is provided about the automatic generation of B2B specifications from conceptual models of collaborative processes. In particular, the generation of B2B specifications based on ebXML is described.

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

2010 ◽  
pp. 238-268
Author(s):  
Pablo David Villarreal ◽  
Enrique Salomone ◽  
Omar Chiotti
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Uml Profile ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Interaction Protocols ◽  
Business To Business

This chapter describes the application of MDA (model driven architecture) and UML for the modeling and specification of collaborative business processes, with the purpose of enabling enterprises to establish business-to-business collaborations. The proposed MDA approach provides the components and techniques required for the development of collaborative processes from their conceptual modeling to the specifications of these processes and the partners’ interfaces in a B2B standard. As part of this MDA approach, a UML profile is provided that extends the semantics of UML2 to support the analysis and design of collaborative processes. This UML profile is based on the use of interaction protocols to model collaborative processes. The application of this UML profile in a case study is presented. Also, an overview is provided about the automatic generation of B2B specifications from conceptual models of collaborative processes. In particular, the generation of B2B specifications based on ebXML is described.

scholarly journals Model-driven support for business process families with the Common Variability Language (CVL)

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Calegari ◽  
Andrea Delgado ◽  
Leonel Peña
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Business Objective ◽  
Graphical Tool ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of

To achieve a business objective, organizations may require variants of the same business process that depend on the context in which they are enacted. Several proposals have emerged to deal with the variability of business processes, focused on the modeling of a so-called process family. The proposals try to avoid modeling each variant separately, which implies duplication and maintenance of the common parts. Few of them also focus on automatically deriving a process variant from the definition of a process family, which is a central and complex task. One of these proposals is the Common Variability Language (CVL), which allows representing variability transparently in a host language. This article aims to explore the use of CVL together with the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0) for modeling business process families, and the use of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) techniques for the automatic generation of process variants. We also present a graphical tool supporting these ideas and a qualitative evaluation of the variability approach by using the VIVACE framework.

Advancing Interoperability for Agile Cross-Organisational Collaboration

2011 ◽  
pp. 238-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Gionis ◽  
Christoph Schroth ◽  
Till Janner
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Technical Specification ◽  
Data Models ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Huge Variety

The level of adoption of advanced integration technologies, by private and public organizations, in support of their electronic collaborative business transactions is still relatively low, especially among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Current solutions often lack a common understanding of the underlying business processes, document semantics and business rules that are imposed on them in different sectors and countries. Furthermore, software applications are not able to cope with the huge variety of differentiation in process and document semantics, stemming from the highly diverse requirements of the stakeholders. This study presents a comprehensive Model-Driven Architecture for enabling agile cross-organisational collaboration, in an international context, by integrating business and legal rules in private and collaborative processes, business documents and their resulting service orchestrations. The resulting framework, that was mostly developed and applied in the course of the EU-funded research project GENESIS, ranges from graphical process and data models and declarative rule structures to the technical specification of a hybrid software architecture for integrating rule with process and data models.

Design and Implementation of Active Stream Data Warehouses

2021 ◽  
pp. 288-311
Author(s):  
Sandro Bimonte ◽  
Omar Boussaid ◽  
Michel Schneider ◽  
Fabien Ruelle
Keyword(s):  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Data Warehouses ◽  
Stream Data ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Uml Profile ◽  
Classical Information ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Eca Rules

In the era of Big Data, more and more stream data is available. In the same way, Decision Support Systems (DSS) tools, such as data warehouses and alert systems, become more and more sophisticated, and conceptual modeling tools are consequently mandatory for successfully DSS projects. Formalisms such as UML and ER have been widely used in the context of classical information and data warehouse systems, but they have not been investigated yet for stream data warehouses to deal with alert systems. Therefore, in this article, the authors introduce the notion of Active Stream Data Warehouse (ASDW) and this article proposes a UML profile for designing Active Stream Data Warehouses. Indeed, this article extends the ICSOLAP profile to take into account continuous and window OLAP queries. Moreover, this article studies the duality of the stream and OLAP decision-making process and the authors propose a set of ECA rules to automatically trigger OLAP operators. The UML profile is implemented in a new OLAP architecture, and it is validated using an environmental case study concerning the wind monitoring.

Developing Secure Business Processes

2012 ◽  
pp. 146-169
Author(s):  
Alfonso Rodríguez ◽  
Eduardo Fernández-Medina ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Process Model ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Business Analyst ◽  
Model Driven Approach ◽  
Secure Business Process

Business processes are valuable resources for enterprises to maintain their competitiveness. They are characterized by describing the set of activities that enterprises perform to reach their objectives. On the other hand, security is also an essential element in current competitiveness. Enterprises invest resources in keeping their assets protected and worry about maintaining their customers’ trust. In this way, aspects such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability are important in relation to enterprise activities. In this work, we will define business processes that incorporate the viewpoint of the business analyst regarding security. The result is a secure business process model that is used for software creation under a model-driven approach. In this work, we will show the main aspects of this proposal, taking into consideration a case study that allows us to show its applicability.

A Model-Driven Solution for the Automatic Generation of Executable Code from Business Process Models

2014 ◽  
pp. 213-253
Author(s):  
Javier Fabra ◽  
Valeria de Castro ◽  
Verónica Andrea Bollati ◽  
Pedro Álvarez ◽  
Esperanza Marcos
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Executable Code ◽  
The One

The business goals of an enterprise process are traced to business process models with the aim of being carried out during the execution stage. The automatic translation from these models to fully executable code that can be simulated and round-trip engineered is still an open challenge in the Business Process Management field. Model-driven Engineering has proposed a set of methodologies to solve the existing gap between business analysts and software developers, but the expected results have not been reached yet. In order to rise to this challenge, in this chapter the authors propose a solution based on the integration of three previous proposals: SOD-M, DENEB, and MeTAGeM. On the one hand, SOD-M is a model-driven method for the development of service-oriented systems. Business analysts can use SOD-M to transform their business goals into composition service models, a type of model that represents business processes. On the other hand, DENEB is a platform for the development and execution of flexible business processes, represented by means of workflow models. The authors' approach focuses on the automatic transformation of SOD-M models to DENEB workflow models, resulting in a business process that is coded by a class of high-level Petri-nets, and it is directly executable in DENEB. The model transformation process has been automated using the MeTAGeM tool, which automatically generates the set of ATL rules required to transform SOD-M models to DENEB workflows. Finally, the integration of the three proposals has been illustrated by means of a real system related to the management of medical images.

scholarly journals Automatic generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1083-1106
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Athanasios Zolotas ◽  
Horacio Hoyos Rodriguez ◽  
Simos Gerasimou ◽  
Dimitrios S. Kolovos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
User Study ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Transformation Techniques ◽  
Modelling Language ◽  
Uml Profile ◽  
Modelling Languages ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Uml Profiles

Abstract UML profiles offer an intuitive way for developers to build domain-specific modelling languages by reusing and extending UML concepts. Eclipse Papyrus is a powerful open-source UML modelling tool which supports UML profiling. However, with power comes complexity, implementing non-trivial UML profiles and their supporting editors in Papyrus typically requires the developers to handcraft and maintain a number of interconnected models through a loosely guided, labour-intensive and error-prone process. We demonstrate how metamodel annotations and model transformation techniques can help manage the complexity of Papyrus in the creation of UML profiles and their supporting editors. We present Jorvik, an open-source tool that implements the proposed approach. We illustrate its functionality with examples, and we evaluate our approach by comparing it against manual UML profile specification and editor implementation using a non-trivial enterprise modelling language (Archimate) as a case study. We also perform a user study in which developers are asked to produce identical editors using both Papyrus and Jorvik demonstrating the substantial productivity and maintainability benefits that Jorvik delivers.

Design and Implementation of Active Stream Data Warehouses

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro Bimonte ◽  
Omar Boussaid ◽  
Michel Schneider ◽  
Fabien Ruelle
Keyword(s):  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Data Warehouses ◽  
Stream Data ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Uml Profile ◽  
Classical Information ◽  
Eca Rules

In the era of Big Data, more and more stream data is available. In the same way, Decision Support Systems (DSS) tools, such as data warehouses and alert systems, become more and more sophisticated, and conceptual modeling tools are consequently mandatory for successfully DSS projects. Formalisms such as UML and ER have been widely used in the context of classical information and data warehouse systems, but they have not been investigated yet for stream data warehouses to deal with alert systems. Therefore, in this article, the authors introduce the notion of Active Stream Data Warehouse (ASDW) and this article proposes a UML profile for designing Active Stream Data Warehouses. Indeed, this article extends the ICSOLAP profile to take into account continuous and window OLAP queries. Moreover, this article studies the duality of the stream and OLAP decision-making process and the authors propose a set of ECA rules to automatically trigger OLAP operators. The UML profile is implemented in a new OLAP architecture, and it is validated using an environmental case study concerning the wind monitoring.

Application of Dynamic Instance Queuing to Activity Sequences in Cooperative Business Process Scenarios

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 1650002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Pflug ◽  
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Real World ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Production Lines ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Work Production

The optimization of their business processes is a crucial challenge for many enterprises. This applies especially for organizations using complex cooperative information systems to support human work, production lines, or computing services. Optimizations can touch different aspects such as costs, throughput times, and quality. Nowadays, improvements in workflows are mostly achieved by restructuring the process model. However, in many applications there is a huge potential for optimizations during runtime as well. This holds particularly true for collaborative processes with critical activities, i.e. activities that require a high setup or changeover time, typically leading to waiting queues in instance processing. What is usually suggested in this situation is to bundle several instances in order to execute them as a batch. How the batching is achieved, however, has been only decided on static rules so far. In this paper, we feature dynamic instance queuing (DIQ) as an approach towards clustering and batching instances based on the current conditions in the process, e.g. attribute values of the instances. Specifically, we extend our previous work on applying DIQ at single activities towards a queuing approach that spans activity sequences (DIQS). The approach is evaluated based on a real-world case study from the manufacturing domain. We discuss limitations and further applications of the DIQ idea, e.g. with respect to collaborative human tasks.

Towards the Meta-Modeling of Complex Inter-Organisationnel Collaborative Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-34
Author(s):  
Kahina Semar-Bitah ◽  
Kamel Boukhalfa
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Transformation Rules ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Meta Modeling ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Uml Models

Enterprises are progressively embedded in business to business atmospheres, in order to achieve their common business objectives. Such collaborations lead to Inter-Organizational Business Processes. Therefore, IOBP modeling involves new challenges, mainly the ability to deal with autonomy, privacy, heterogeneity. As a contribution in this area, a IOBP meta-model was designed. This model takes into account the maximum concepts related to the collaboration. Where, the process is complex, and its model in a global way affects its vision and complicates its implementation and hence the idea of its analysis into sub-IOBP to reduce the complexity of the global collaborative process, to streamline information exchange and to facilitate the understanding of the process by partners. A set of Atlas Transformation Language (ATL) transformation rules has been defined to convert Unified Modeling Language (UML) models to Business Process Model and Notation. Finally, the application of our approach has been demonstrated through a framework which can solve the problem of generic IOBP.

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