EFFICIENT SYSTEM INTEGRATION USING SEMANTIC REQUIREMENTS AND CAPABILITY MODELS - An Approach for Integrating Heterogeneous Business Services

Thomas Moser, Richard Mordinyi, Stefan Biffl, Alexander Mikula

2009

Abstract

Business system designers want to integrate heterogeneous legacy systems to provide flexible business ser-vices cheaper and faster. Unfortunately, modern integration technologies represent important integration knowledge only implicitly making solutions harder to understand, verify, and maintain. In this paper we propose a data-driven approach, “Semantically-Enabled Externalization of Knowledge” (SEEK), that explicitly models the semantics of integration requirements & capabilities, and data transformations between he-terogeneous legacy systems. Goal of SEEK is to make the systems integration process more efficient by providing tool support for quality assurance (QA) steps and generation of system configurations. Based on use cases from industry partners, we compare the SEEK approach with UML-based modeling. In the evalua-tion context SEEK was found to be more effective to make expert knowledge on system requirements and capabilities available for more efficient tool support and reuse.

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Moser T., Mordinyi R., Biffl S. and Mikula A. (2009). EFFICIENT SYSTEM INTEGRATION USING SEMANTIC REQUIREMENTS AND CAPABILITY MODELS - An Approach for Integrating Heterogeneous Business Services . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-84-5, pages 56-63. DOI: 10.5220/0001941600560063


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Thomas Moser and Richard Mordinyi and Stefan Biffl and Alexander Mikula},
title={EFFICIENT SYSTEM INTEGRATION USING SEMANTIC REQUIREMENTS AND CAPABILITY MODELS - An Approach for Integrating Heterogeneous Business Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={56-63},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001941600560063},
isbn={978-989-8111-84-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - EFFICIENT SYSTEM INTEGRATION USING SEMANTIC REQUIREMENTS AND CAPABILITY MODELS - An Approach for Integrating Heterogeneous Business Services
SN - 978-989-8111-84-5
AU - Moser T.
AU - Mordinyi R.
AU - Biffl S.
AU - Mikula A.
PY - 2009
SP - 56
EP - 63
DO - 10.5220/0001941600560063