A model-driven perspective on the rule-based specification and analysis of service-based applications

Iacob, Maria-Eugenia; Jonkers, Henk

doi:10.1080/17517570903042762

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“…Researchers believe that SOA provides significant benefits to organizations, enabling them to dynamically build new applications and respond to changing business needs. Services represent the functionalities of the business 32 . As an architectural approach, it breaks down business applications into individual processes and services.…”

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Data interoperability assessment, case of messaging‐based data exchanges

Laval

Niang

Derras³

et al. 2023

J Software Evolu Process

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Data interoperability implies data exchanges among intra and inter enterprises collaborating with information systems (IS). The multiplicity of these exchanges and the increasing number of data exchanged generates complexity and brings out the needs for control to avoid dysfunctions with a negative impact on the overall performance of the systems. Indeed, actually, interoperability has become a necessary performance lever that thus requires particular attention. Being at a low level in the enterprise interoperability concerns, data interoperability is mainly automated, which leads us to question: Is it possible to evaluate data interoperability performance and security based on inspection and analysis of ongoing data exchanges? We therefore endeavored to answer this question by establishing monitoring and analysis systems. In this paper, we present a research work which addresses services provided by a messaging‐based communication system. In order to collect information on Information System interactions allowing one to assess their level of data interoperability, we propose a messaging metamodel that aggregates the collected information. It provides a single point of control and enables one to determine indicators of potential interoperability problems. The approach is validated on two case studies. An industrial case study of interactions among existing systems is presented to showcase the feasibility and interest of the approach. It is proposed on top of RabbitMQ and allows our partner to identify some issues in the studied information system. The second case study shows that the approach can integrate other protocols, by reading MQTT messages. The approach is implemented using Moose, a software analysis platform.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Services represent the functionalities of the business. 32 As an architectural approach, it breaks down business applications into individual processes and services. They can be recomposed to create alternative applications.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data interoperability assessment, case of messaging‐based data exchanges

Laval

Niang

Derras³

et al. 2023

J Software Evolu Process

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“…By addressing the dimension of methods, Iacob and Jonkers (2009) describe a rule-based approach to design service-oriented software applications. By building upon the model-driven design paradigm, they use BR to coordinate service orchestration and to realize corresponding automation potentials.…”

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Directions for future research on the integration of SOA, BPM, and BRM

Fischer

Imgrund

Janiesch

et al. 2019

BPMJ

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Purpose Digital transformation has been changing the economic environment of enterprises in recent years. To remain competitive, they rely on an extensible software architecture, flexible workflow execution, and automated decision management. The concepts of service-oriented architectures (SOA), business process management (BPM), and business rules management (BRM) provide an adequate, yet isolated means of addressing many of these requirements. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This study adapts from established research frameworks to structure the current state of research on the integration of SOA, BPM and BRM. The authors highlight the current research scope, point to disregarded topics and sketch out multidisciplinary research approaches. Findings While the three concepts are often discussed only in isolation or pairwise, approaches that integrate them are scarce. Against this backdrop, this study defines three types of research opportunities and identifies several directions for future research that should be explored from a technological as well as organizational perspective. Given the breadth of open questions, the authors present sources for each area of our research framework, which can serve as starting points for future investigations. Practical implications Except for well-established support for separate tasks and technologies, there is a lack of integrated standards, methods and platforms, which for example enable integrated decision-making across BPM and SOA. Originality/value Our contribution builds on established frameworks and clearly shows that the discussion on the integration of SOA, BPM and BRM cannot yet be regarded as sufficient. The research agenda highlights which areas explicitly benefit from a more precise consideration.

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“…Despite theoretical advantages of the model-driven approach for the development and evolution of enterprise computing systems, there are some issues related to its practical application. Addressing the problem of enterprise models applications, Iacob and Jonkers (2009) advocate that MDD can become more effective if business rules are incorporated in the context of SOA.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%