Realization of Agile Enterprises: A Meet-in-the-Middle MDA Approach for Service-Oriented Business Processes

Youcef Baghdadi, Naoufel Kraiem, Yassine Jamoussi, Ricardo Pérez-Castillo

2013

Abstract

Enterprise agility is not possible if Business Processes (BPs) are rigid and cannot respond to the environmental changes. One of the solutions is to make service as part of the requirements and solution, by using services as the main building blocks at different levels of abstraction. In this approach, we model BPs by using specialized services having separated concerns. The enterprises business objects, as implemented in the information system, provide these services. This approach requires both reverse and forward engineering. The former presents the existing information systems as a set of common, consistent, sharable BOs. Whereas, the latter uses MDA to take profit of the rapid transformation of the BP models into executable by using standards such as BOs, web services and BPEL.

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Baghdadi Y., Kraiem N., Jamoussi Y. and Pérez-Castillo R. (2013). Realization of Agile Enterprises: A Meet-in-the-Middle MDA Approach for Service-Oriented Business Processes . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-66-2, pages 103-110. DOI: 10.5220/0004600301030110


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@conference{sem13,
author={Youcef Baghdadi and Naoufel Kraiem and Yassine Jamoussi and Ricardo Pérez-Castillo},
title={Realization of Agile Enterprises: A Meet-in-the-Middle MDA Approach for Service-Oriented Business Processes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={103-110},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004600301030110},
isbn={978-989-8565-66-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013)
TI - Realization of Agile Enterprises: A Meet-in-the-Middle MDA Approach for Service-Oriented Business Processes
SN - 978-989-8565-66-2
AU - Baghdadi Y.
AU - Kraiem N.
AU - Jamoussi Y.
AU - Pérez-Castillo R.
PY - 2013
SP - 103
EP - 110
DO - 10.5220/0004600301030110