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From BPMN Models to SoaML Models

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Abstract

Organizations build information systems to support their business processes. Today’s business processes often cross the organizations’ boundaries and become increasingly complex. Therefore, information systems that automate these business processes must take into account collaborative and complex scenarios involving distributed partners. Designing such systems is not trivial considering: (i) the complexity of the cross-organizational business processes, and (ii) the large gap between business processes and information systems. To address this gap, this paper relies on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm to propose an end-to-end method to design SOA-based information systems from business process models. More precisely, this paper proposes to generate SOA design models expressed in SoaML from the specifications of a collection of organizations’ private processes expressed in BPMN.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    A private business process is a process that occurs within the boundaries of the organization.

  2. 2.

    In [13], we identified six process adaptation patterns that resolve incompatibilities when connecting private processes to build COBP models.

  3. 3.

    In this work, we merged the planning and identification phases into a single open-edi phase.

  4. 4.

    When the exchange of the resources between the partners do not happen simultaneously, the exchange is out of balance for a certain period of time. This temporary imbalance results in a claim between partners. An Invoice is an example of claim materialization.

  5. 5.

    The confirmation is a reply message. We had the option of either ignoring it by applying the SEZE pattern (see [13]) or connecting it to the (sub)process containing the activity that sends the original message. We chose the second option.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

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  1. LATECE Laboratory, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada

    Abderrahmane Leshob, Redouane Blal & Hafedh Mili

  2. UQAM School of Management (ESG UQAM), Montreal, Canada

    Abderrahmane Leshob, Redouane Blal & Pierre Hadaya

  3. School of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

    Omar Khadeer Hussain

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan

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Leshob, A., Blal, R., Mili, H., Hadaya, P., Hussain, O.K. (2020). From BPMN Models to SoaML Models. In: Barolli, L., Hussain, F., Ikeda, M. (eds) Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22354-0_12

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