Authors:
Fabien Leymonerie
;
Lionel Blanc Dit Jolicoeur
;
Sorana Cîmpan
;
Christian Braesch
and
Flavio Oquendo
Affiliation:
University of Savoy at Annecy – ESIA Engineering School - LISTIC Laboratory, France
Keyword(s):
enterprise modeling, business process, enterprise application integration, architectural description language, architectural styles.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
Nowadays, enterprises need to control their business processes and to manage more and more information.
EAI - Enterprise Application Integration - solutions offer a partial response to these requirements. However, the lack of formalisation that characterises such solutions limits the reuse and verification of properties. This paper claims that business processes have to be formally defined using a formalism that presents certain features (representation of several abstraction levels, domain specific concepts, property expression and preservation, etc.) and proposes the use of an ADL - Architecture Description Language - as formalism. A case study illustrates our proposition.