A Model-Driven Perspective on the Rule-Based Specification of Services

Iacob, Maria-Eugenia; Jonkers, Henk

doi:10.1109/edoc.2008.24

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“…Integration of rules and processes has been the research subject of early investigation [4,13], since a merge of business processes and rules to improve the capturing of temporal information for information systems development was first introduced [17]. To the best of our knowledge, there are two main options to integrate business rules and business processes.…”

Section: Methods To Combine Business Rules and Service-based Businmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main problem is that the whole underlying business logic is expressed as a monolithic block, namely the process specification [14]. Each business constraint that must be pre-defined and hard-wired throughout the process has to be expressed in terms of activities and must be integrated with the process specification [13].…”

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“…Business rule standards and languages in MDA layers [12] B. The advantage of business rules in maintaining the interoperability of the service-based business processes With above critical issues business process languages like BPEL, BPML, BPDM, etc suffer, especially with regard to their flexibility and adaptability, business rules have been investigated as an alternative declarative approach towards business process interoperability, on the basis of the following key advantages [5,13,26]:…”

Section: A Business Rule Definition and Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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State of the Art and Emerging Rule-driven Perspectives towards Service-based Business Process Interoperability

Hoang

Nguyen

2009

2009 IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies

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By its very nature, delivering information as a service upon the demands of the business, service-based business processes offer additional features and benefits that can complement traditional BI implementations in providing enterprises of all sizes a new approach to meet their data integration and analysis needs at all levels in the enterprise. To be successful, BI solutions have required new ways of approaching the business process interoperability, providing an efficient support for the whole process of service-based BI deployment. In this context, the focus of this paper is on the state of the art towards business process interoperability in the service-based business environments. Specifically, this paper also aims to highlight significant potentials of business rules that can enable business processes to meet the adaptability and interoperability requirements of service-based business processes. Some of the challenges current rule-based approaches face and potential research opportunities will be also highlighted.

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Section: Methods To Combine Business Rules and Service-based Businmentioning

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Section: Existing Challengesmentioning

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State of the Art and Emerging Rule-driven Perspectives towards Service-based Business Process Interoperability

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Nguyen

2009

2009 IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies

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“…According to [12], business rules can be derived as the operationalisation of an organization's goals and strategies. As such, rules not only play a role in capturing business goals but also in incorporating them in the design of application services, and in the design and control of the service orchestration.…”

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“…In Figure 1, a distinction is made between the design space (the middle column), with models expressed in design languages such as UML, business process modeling languages, or architectural description languages, and the goal & business rule space (the right column), with goals and rules expressed in special-purpose specification, such as SBVR. This framework defines our vision on how to design service-oriented applications in a model-driven and goalbased way [12] [13]. …”

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Goal and model driven design of an architecture for a care service platform

Meertens

Iacob

Nieuwenhuis

2010

Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Service-Oriented Architecture holds the potential of allowing the development on-the-fly of flexible applications that can adapt rapidly by combining and reusing existing services. We believe that in order to react swiftly and coherently to changes, an architecture must provide a capability to capture how services, and the more complex applications based on them, realize business motivations. This research develops a framework and a method for goal-driven, model-driven, and service-oriented design. The framework includes goal modeling in the MDA stack, from CIM to code. By using this framework, we are able to create a system that is compatible with its business goals, and thus is flexible when business demands change. A case study demonstrates how our framework can be used to combine MDA, SOA, and goal modeling with business rules as an architecture for a care service platform.

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Towards a Flexible Service Integration through Separation of Business Rules

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Iacob

Sinderen

2010

2010 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference

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Driven by dynamic market demands, enterprises are continuously exploring collaborations with others to add value to their services and seize new market opportunities. Achieving enterprise collaboration is facilitated by Enterprise Application Integration and Business-to-Business approaches that employ architectural paradigms like Service Oriented Architecture and incorporate technological advancements in networking and computing. However, flexibility remains a major challenge related to enterprise collaboration. How can changes in demands and opportunities be reflected in collaboration solutions with minimum time and effort and with maximum reuse of existing applications? This paper proposes an approach towards a more flexible integration of enterprise applications in the context of service mediation. We achieve this by combining goal-based, model-driven and serviceoriented approaches. In particular, we pay special attention to the separation of business rules from the business process of the integration solution. Specifying the requirements as goal models, we separate those parts which are more likely to evolve over time in terms of business rules. These business rules are then made executable by exposing them as Web services and incorporating them into the design of the business process. Thus, should the business rules change, the business process remains unaffected. Finally, this paper also provides an evaluation of the flexibility of our solution in relation to the current work in business process flexibility research.

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A Model-Driven Perspective on the Rule-Based Specification of Services

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References 12 publications

State of the Art and Emerging Rule-driven Perspectives towards Service-based Business Process Interoperability

State of the Art and Emerging Rule-driven Perspectives towards Service-based Business Process Interoperability

Goal and model driven design of an architecture for a care service platform

Towards a Flexible Service Integration through Separation of Business Rules

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