An Extension of Business Process Model for XML Schema Modeling

Adapting service interfaces when business processes evolve

“…However, business processes are not considered in these papers. Paper [13], on the other hand, focuses on deriving optimal communication XML formats for a given conceptual schema of a business process and respective exchanged data. The authors use the MDA approach, i.e.…”

“…The authors continue with the work and introduce methods for propagation of evolution operations. Paper [13] describes an approach to conceptual modeling and to generation of the PSM model by defining own PIM and PSM model. It uses metrics to select an optimal PSM model from the set of possible PSM models.…”

“…We use an extended and optimized approach and we create interconnections between models as in [13]. The next contribution of our work is the analysis of the evolution part, which is in the related work studied only in the scope of data model, but not business process model.…”

“…We re-use and extend the approach of paper [13] to define features of an optimal communication XML schema for a given conceptual schema of a business process, complemented with a conceptual schema of the exchanged data. Especially, we re-use two metrics and we add one new.…”

“…Especially, we re-use two metrics and we add one new. In particular, paper [13] ignores cardinalities of relations which leads to loss of information, especially for cardinalities with the bound value equal to zero. Hence, we use the idea presented in [10] and we study navigation and cardinalities of relations in the conceptual model of the exchanged data.…”