A goal-driven approach to enterprise component identification and specification

Levi, Keith R.; Arsanjani, Ali

doi:10.1145/570907.570930

Cited by 68 publications

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“…Governance Responsibility [57,59,77,94,168] Implementation Responsibility [6,66] Rate of Change [35,40,61,66,72,73,75,83,84,89,91,102,103,107,108,134,135,153,168,172] Reusability [59,70,75,85,88,91,108,108,110,111,123] Rule Source [93,177] Scope of Impact [6,66] …”

Section: Implementation Responsibility Implementation Responsibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules

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Two major components in current information system architectures in terms of modeling business requirements are business processes and business rules, both of which focus on creating a representation of the organization's policies and practices. The conceptual and pragmatic overlap between business process models and business rules indicates a need to model the two related aspects together. Over the past two decades the need to model business rules in an integrated manner with business processes has been argued theoretically as well as validated empirically, and a variety of integration methods have been developed. However, the following questions have not yet been answered by current research. First, while researchers have argued that integrated modeling of business process models and business rules can improve the understanding of business processes, this proposition has neither been theoretically analyzed, nor empirically evaluated.Second, there are situations in which a business rule is better modelled independently of a business process model, but also situations in which it is more appropriate to integrate the rule with a business process model. An important aspect of integrated modeling is the understanding of such situations and how they influence business rule representation.Thus, the aim of this thesis is to address the above two questions and then develop a decision framework that guides modelers on whether and how to integrate a business rule with a business process model. Accordingly, the thesis has the following three objectives:(1) theoretically analyze and empirically evaluate if and when business rule integration can improve business process model understanding, (2) identify and evaluate factors that will influence the decision of whether or not a business rule should be integrated with a business process model, and (3) develop a decision framework that guides modelers on whether or not, and if so how, to integrate a business rule with a business process model.

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Section: Implementation Responsibility Implementation Responsibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules

Wang¹

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“…In Levi & Arsanjani (2003), e-services are coupled to goals using a modelling method, similar to the approach proposed in this paper. The method described in Levi & Arsanjani (2003) uses high-level business goals, identified by business executives, business owners and business modellers, which are decomposed into a hierarchy of sub-goals.…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Approach for E-Service Design using Enterprise Models

Johannesson

Henkel

Perjons

2011

International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design

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Today's organisations demand new business models for value creation and innovation. Such business models require collaboration with customers and vendors in agile and flexible networks. To realise such networks, organisations are embracing service oriented models and architectures, using e-services for business communication. A major issue for a service oriented organisation is to design and offer e-services that are adapted to the needs, wants, and requirements of customers and vendors. This is a challenging task as different customer groups and vendors will have different requirements, which may vary over time, resulting in a large number of e-services. In this paper, we suggest enterprise models as being adequate instruments for design and maintenance of e-services. More specifically, we propose an approach for designing e-services based on value and goal models. Such models will ensure that the constructed e-services will satisfy the needs and wants of customers. A project from the Swedish health care sector is used to demonstrate and evaluate the proposed approach.

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“…The software engineering literature has already a history in developing components [15,20]. Parnas [15] proposed criteria for decomposing system into modules and recommends that systems should be decomposed along lines encapsulating design decisions.…”

Section: Modularizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Levi and Arsanjani [20] proposed a systematic method where a goal-oriented model of a business is created and than mapped to a component-based software architecture. They use 'business uses cases' to guide the decompositions of the business domain.…”

Section: Modularizationmentioning

confidence: 99%