Authors:
Alfredo Cuzzocrea
1
;
Alessandra De Luca
2
and
Salvatore Iiritano
2
Affiliations:
1
ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
;
2
Exeura Srl, Italy
Keyword(s):
Service-Oriented Information Systems, Information Systems Design Methodologies.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Software Engineering
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
This paper extends state-of-the-art design methodologies for classical information systems by introducing an innovative methodology for designing service-oriented information systems. Service-oriented information systems can be viewed as information systems adhering to the novel service-oriented paradigm, to which a plethora of novel technologies, such as Web Services, Grid Services and Cloud Computing, currently marry. On the other hand, actual state-of-the-art literature encloses few papers that focus the attention on this yet-interesting research challenge. With the aim of fulfilling this gap, in this paper we provide a process-driven methodology for modeling service-oriented complex information systems, and we prove its effectiveness and reliability on a comprehensive case study represented by a real-life research project.