NDLI: Towards a Flexible Service Integration through Separation of Business Rules

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Asuncion, C.H. Iacob, M.-E. van Sinderen, M.J.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Manage. & Governance, Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands (Iacob, M.-E.) \|\| Center for Telematics & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands (Asuncion, C.H.; van Sinderen, M.J.)
Abstract	Driven by dynamic market demands, enterprises are continuously exploring collaborations with others to add value to their services and seize new market opportunities. Achieving enterprise collaboration is facilitated by Enterprise Application Integration and Business-to-Business approaches that employ architectural paradigms like Service Oriented Architecture and incorporate technological advancements in networking and computing. However, flexibility remains a major challenge related to enterprise collaboration. How can changes in demands and opportunities be reflected in collaboration solutions with minimum time and effort and with maximum reuse of existing applications? This paper proposes an approach towards a more flexible integration of enterprise applications in the context of service mediation. We achieve this by combining goal-based, model-driven and service-oriented approaches. In particular, we pay special attention to the separation of business rules from the business process of the integration solution. Specifying the requirements as goal models, we separate those parts which are more likely to evolve over time in terms of business rules. These business rules are then made executable by exposing them as Web services and incorporating them into the design of the business process. Thus, should the business rules change, the business process remains unaffected. Finally, this paper also provides an evaluation of the flexibility of our solution in relation to the current work in business process flexibility research.
Starting Page	184
Ending Page	193
File Size	802087
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424479665
ISSN	15417719
DOI	10.1109/EDOC.2010.10
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-10-25
Publisher Place	Brazil
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Business Unified modeling language Moon Mediation Computational modeling Computer integrated manufacturing Authorization Process flexibility Service-oriented mediation Goal-oriented requirements engineering Business rules Model-driven development
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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