Generic Reusable Business Object Modelling —A Framework and its Application in British Telecommunications plc

An Object-Oriented Abstraction Mechanism for Generic Enterprise Modeling

“…Further work is underway to analyze, handle, and evaluate the effects of change on these models and the impact it has on reuse using the change dimension of the GRBOM framework (Choudhury et al, 1997). Further work is also underway to carry out a quantitative evaluation of reuse of the 'telecommunications industry customer services representation model,' to measure the reuse potential of that model in the retail banking and fashion retail industry.…”

“…The problem of using the ontological approach to all stages of business modeling is that rules are used at all stages of modeling and hence can be restrictive and may be inflexible to changes. However, in fulfilling the requirements of the GRBOM-generic reusable business object model approach (Choudhury et al, 1997), ontologies are useful at the conceptual level of modeling. The enterprise ontology built by Carr et al is used at the conceptual level of modeling in the GRBOM approach to identify the conceptual objects of the enterprise.…”

“…Further research was conducted on business engineering with object technology (Shelton, 1994;Taylor, 1995), object-oriented enterprise modeling (Barber, Dewhurst, Burns, & Rogers, 2003;Gale & Eldred, 1996), and the development of a generic and reusable business object modeling (Choudhury, 1999;Choudhury, Sun, & Patel, 1997;Dewhurst, Barber, &, Pritchard, 2002;Hu et al, 2000;Papazoglou & Van den Heuvel, 2000).…”

“…The generality of the model must be optimized because if it were too general it would be of little use as the conceptual difficulty to convert the general to the specific would be too high. GOOEMP makes use of an abstraction technique, using the genericity dimension (see Choudhury et al, 1997) to abstract appropriate industrial sectors and business domains that are to be modeled. Once a domain has been identified, the model of that domain is built according to the abstraction mechanism explained in Figure 1.…”

“…The business domain can be divided up into various functional domains and the representational level refers to particular industrial domains being modeled, for example, the customer services domain, business management domain, or people and work management domain. The representational domain is built with the generic reusable business object modeling (GRBOM) framework (Choudhury et al, 1997). The interactions of the conceptual business objects allow model developers to identify patterns with which to represent particular business processes and these business processes can be generalized to generic business processes.…”