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

Abstract

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.

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

“…The engine draws upon organizational knowledge specified within a BR repository and an economic cost function that considers variable costs. Meertens et al (2010) develop a method to integrate goal-driven and service-driven design principles. By including goal-modeling into the concept of model-driven architectures, their method facilitates an architecture design that is compatible with business goals and flexible when business demands change.…”

A Method for the Development of Platform Models in the Model Driven Architecture Context

“…Moreover, such PM must specify constraints on the use of these elements. MT, in its turn, can be defined as the generation of a target model from a source model based on a set of rules that define the link between its elements (OMG, 2010;Meertens et al, 2010).…”