Abstract
The expansion of PAIS (Process Aware Information Systems) has created the need for reuse in business processes. In fact, companies are left with directories containing several variants of the same business processes, which differ according to their application context. Consequently, the development of PAIS has become increasingly expensive. Therefore, research in business process management domain introduced the concept of configurable process, with the aim of managing the variability of business process. However, with the emergence of the services-based development paradigm, the alignment of services with business processes is highly required in PAIS. Thus, in this paper an MDA based method which allows for generating configurable services from configurable process is proposed.
Highlights
Due to the lack of process control and automation into information systems centered data, the process orientation was established by the introduction of a new generation of information system called Process Aware Information System (PAIS), where the main unit of these information systems is the business process models
Workflow management systems (WFMS) and integrated systems known as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) represent an example of a PAIS [1]
In the last few years, with the wide adoption of PAIS, companies are left with directories containing several variants of the same business processes, which differ according to their application context
Summary
Due to the lack of process control and automation into information systems centered data, the process orientation was established by the introduction of a new generation of information system called Process Aware Information System (PAIS), where the main unit of these information systems is the business process models. In order to choose or combine variants, the designer has to compare and adapt them manually, which could be a complex and an error prone operation In this context, many research studies have focused on managing the variability of business processes by developing configurable processes [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. The study of existing works shows that these approaches do not allow the generation of configurable services emanating from configurable processes, in this context a new concept related to business processes has been introduced, which is the “service based process model” [14] This has led us to study the alignment between the configurable processes and the enterprise applications, in particular services, with the aim of building PAIS that support service orientation. An MDA based method for configurable service generation is described in the Section IV
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