Article in Proceedings INPROC-2009-15

BibliographyBitsaki, Marina; Danylevych, Olha; van den Heuvel, Willem-Jan; Koutras, George D.; Leymann, Frank; Mancioppi, Michele; Nikolaou, Christos N.; Papazoglou, Mike P.: Model Transformations to Leverage Service Networks.
In: ICSOC workshop proceedings, WESOA 2008.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
Springer, March 2009.
Article in Proceedings (Workshop Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
Keywordsservice networks, SOC, BPMN, business process managemen
Abstract

The Internet has catered for the transformation of traditional “stovepiped” service companies into global service networks fostering co-production of value to more effectively and efficiently satisfy the ever-growing demands of mundane customers. The catalyst of this change is the happenstance of Service Oriented Computing, providing a natural distributed computing technology paradigm for implementing and evolving such highly distributed networks of autonomous trading partners with coordinate and cooperative actions. However, how to faithfully (re-)map service networks, including value flows and inter-party interactions, to business processes and service realizations and vice-versa is still partly terra incognita. In this paper, we introduce a semi-automatic model transformation approach for creating the abstract business processes that take place between trading partners from models representing the service networks, assuming extremely limited human-involvement focused on selecting reusable transformation patterns. This approach is explored and validated using a realistic case study reflecting best practices in the telecommunications industry.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)S-Cube
Entry dateFebruary 6, 2009
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