An Approach to Web-based Visualization of Automatically Generated Data Models

Automatic derivation of the initial conceptual database model from a set of business process models

“…Based on the experimentally confirmed [7,20] semantic capacity of data-centric BPMs, a two-phase BPM-driven approach to the CDM synthesis was proposed [21], and the first online service-oriented BPM-driven CDM generator (M-lab Generator) was implemented [19]. Finally, the AMADEOS system [36,14] was launched, as the first online web-based system for BPM-driven CDM synthesis. AMADEOS implements the CDM synthesis process through an orchestration of the M-lab Generator services, and enables the CDM synthesis based on BPMs that may be represented by BPMN or UML AD.…”

“…This is confirmed by the fact that some participants in E-3 first exported the automatically generated CDM, then imported and edited it in some other tool. 36 .…”

“…The first very important milestone in our progress was the indirect two-phase CDM synthesis [21], which enables and facilitates derivation of the target data model from differently represented BPMs. By applying the two-phase CDM synthesis approach, we have launched the AMADEOS 3 system [19,36,14], which was the first online web-based system enabling automatic CDM derivation from BPMs that may be represented by two different notations and differently serialized. However, AMADEOS was able to automatically generate a CDM based on a single BPM, as the large majority of the existing MDSDM tools.…”