Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive Information
Abstract
Business systems these days need to be agile to address the needs of a changing world. In particular the discipline of Enterprise Application Integration requires business process management to be highly reconfigurable with the ability to support dynamic workflows, inter-application integration and process reconfiguration. Basing EAI systems on model-resident or on a so-called description-driven approach enables aspects of flexibility, distribution, system evolution and integration to be addressed in a domain-independent manner. Such a system called CRISTAL is described in this paper with particular emphasis on its application to EAI problem domains. A practical example of the CRISTAL technology in the domain of manufacturing systems, called Agilium, is described to demonstrate the principles of model-driven system evolution and integration. The approach is compared to other model-driven development approaches such as the Model-Driven Architecture of the OMG and so-called Adaptive Object Models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0310048,
title = {Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive Information},
author = {Sebastien Gaspard and Florida Estrella and Richard McClatchey and Regis Dindeleux},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0310048},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures. Presented at the eCOMO'2003 4th Int. Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Approaches for e-Business