mcheung's vertical_transformation [7 articles]

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Bridging the gap between business and IT is a significant challenge companies face today. One approach is using automated model transformations to derive IT implementations from business process models. In spite of extensive research on such model transformations, the problem is still not solved from a practical point of view. In this paper, we provide a classification of existing literature on the topic and relate these transformation approaches to real-world requirements. We provide a conceptual framework for business to IT transformations ...

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The field of Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM) has refuelled interest in using ontologies for the representation of the static and dynamic aspects of an enterprise and value chains. Putting the SBPM vision into practice, however, requires a consistent and operational network of ontologies reflecting the various spheres of enterprise structures and operations. Consistent means that the ontologies are based on compatible paradigms, have a compatible degree of detail, and include at least partial sets of alignment relations which allow data ...

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Abstract. Integration of systems across various enterprises to realize crossorganisational collaborations is complex. The application of model-driven software development facilitates faster and more flexible integration by separating system descriptions in models to different levels of abstraction. However, interoperability problems in modelling can be hardly overcome by solutions operating essentially at syntactical level. This paper presents an approach using the capabilities of semantic web technology in order to improve crossorganisational modelling by automated generation of model transformations. 1 ...

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The use of different modeling languages in software development makes their integration a must. Most existing integration approaches are metamodel-based with these metamodels representing both an abstract syntax of the corresponding modeling language and also a data structure for storing models. This implementation specific focus, however, does not make explicit certain language concepts, which can complicate integration tasks. Hence, we propose a process which semi-automatically lifts metamodels into ontologies by making implicit concepts in the metamodel explicit in the ontology. Thus, ...

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There are often three groups of experts involved in the design and implementation of business processes in a service oriented enterprise; business analysts, solution architects and system developers. They collaborate with each other to transform a high-level design created by a business analyst to a final executable workflow, based on a service composition language such as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). In this paper, we present a new approach to support and semi-automate this transformation process, thus producing applications of ...

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In this work, we present a conceptual framework for deriving executable business process models from high-level, graphical business process models based on the paradigm of Service-Oriented Architectures and Semantic Web technology. We hereby envision a direct, but implicit link from a business analyst’s view on a process model to its execution driven by an IT system. This linkage enables the derivation of an execution-level model for newly created business process models as well as adaptation of the execution model after re-engineering ...

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This paper proposes a method which aims at increasing the efficiency of enterprise system implementations. First, we argue that existing process modeling languages that feature different degrees of abstraction for different user groups exist and are used for different purposes which makes it necessary to integrate them. We describe how to do this using the meta models of the involved languages. Second, we argue that an integrated process model based on the integrated meta model needs to be configurable and elaborate ...