Article in Proceedings INPROC-2011-87

BibliographyMinguez, Jorge; Niedermann, Florian; Mitschang, Bernhard: A provenance-aware service repository for EAI process modeling tools.
In: IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration 2011 (IRI '11).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 42-47, english.
Las Vegas: IEEE Press, August 2011.
DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2011.6009518.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationIEEE
CR-SchemaD.2.11 (Software Engineering Software Architectures)
D.2.13 (Software Engineering Reusable Software)
KeywordsEAI process modeling tool; business process; business service; data interoperability; enterprise application integration; functional interoperability; manufacturing domain; process lifecycle management; provenance aware service repository; provenance data model; provenance subscription capabilities; service engineering methods; service knowledge base; service reusability; business data processing; knowledge based systems; manufacturing industries; open systems
Abstract

One of the major challenges for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) process modeling tools is the continuous adaptation of the business processes and services. Business and IT specialists are both confronted with a number of problems involved in the adaptation of such processes, such as the lack of support for process lifecycle management, data and functional interoperability problems or the appropriate service knowledge base. Currently, most service engineering methods adopt a lifecycle strategy for the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of services. However, enterprises exploiting service reusability lack the knowledge on process dependencies across the entire service lifecycle. This knowledge is required by process modeling tools in order to keep EAI processes loosely-coupled. Using a provenance data model we describe the different types of service dependencies in EAI processes with regard to the service changes across its lifecycle. We present a provenance-aware service repository with provenance subscription capabilities and its adoption for different use cases in the manufacturing domain.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Project(s)GSaME-D2
Entry dateFebruary 19, 2013
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