A Model-driven Approach to Process Enactment

Sana Damak Mallouli, Saïd Assar, Carine Souveyet

2012

Abstract

Building software tools to support a new modeling formalism is a complex, error prone and time consuming task. Previous experiences have taught us that maintainability and portability are key issues which are poorly supported when development is realized in and ad-hoc manner. To overcome these limitations, we are investigating a meta-model driven approach for specifying at design phase not only the structural part of a process meta-model, but also its operational semantics in order to derive in a systematic manner an enactment engine. In this paper, we show how process model operational semantics are expressed by defining the architecture of an interactive enactment engine, and how the engine's behavior is formally specified using an event based notation. This approach includes an implementation step in which the engine behavior meta-model is transformed into a running system that is based on the publish/subscribe pattern.

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Damak Mallouli S., Assar S. and Souveyet C. (2012). A Model-driven Approach to Process Enactment . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 351-354. DOI: 10.5220/0004083303510354


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@conference{icsoft12,
author={Sana Damak Mallouli and Saïd Assar and Carine Souveyet},
title={A Model-driven Approach to Process Enactment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={351-354},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004083303510354},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - A Model-driven Approach to Process Enactment
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Damak Mallouli S.
AU - Assar S.
AU - Souveyet C.
PY - 2012
SP - 351
EP - 354
DO - 10.5220/0004083303510354