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SOA\(^\mathrm{+d}\): a new way to design the decision in SOA—based on the new standard Decision Model and Notation (DMN)

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In recent years, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies are emerging as a powerful vehicle for organizations that need to integrate their applications within and across organizational boundaries. In addition, organizations need to make better decisions more quickly. Moreover, they need to change those decisions immediately to adapt to this increasingly dynamic business environment. It is primarily a question in ensuring the decisional aspect by adopting the SOA as a support architecture. In this paper, we describe a new approach called SOA\(^\mathrm{+d}\) based on a certain number of standards. It is going to be studied on three dimensions: The first is related to the definition of the information system implied in the SOA based on the use case model. The second develops the business dimension which is based on the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation). The last dimension addresses the need of decision; we use the new standard decision model and notation (DMN) which is recently approved by Object Management Group (OMG) and considered as a simple notation to specify the decision. Finally, Service Oriented Architecture Modeling Language (SoaML) will be used for design of several services. We also present our meta-model Decisional Model of Service (DMS) to define a new set of concepts necessary for modeling the three levels. Some of them are already known, whereas others are new and are proposed as an element of this work. we illustrate our proposal with a real case study in the Pharmacy Inventory Management.

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  1. LRDSI Laboratory, Sciences Faculty, Saad Dahlab University, Soumaa Road, BP 270, Blida, Algeria

    Fatima Boumahdi, Amina Guendouz & Khalida Gasmia

  2. Laboratory LMCS, ESI, Wadi-Smar (Algiers), Algeria

    Rachid Chalal

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Boumahdi, F., Chalal, R., Guendouz, A. et al. SOA\(^\mathrm{+d}\): a new way to design the decision in SOA—based on the new standard Decision Model and Notation (DMN). SOCA 10, 35–53 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-014-0162-x

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