From Business Process Models to Service-Oriented Architecture Models

从业务流程模型到面向服务的架构模型

• 批准号: RGPIN-2018-05465
• 负责人: Leshob, Abderrahmane
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: Université du Québec à Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=657265
• 关键词: Business; Process; Models; Service; Oriented

Organizations develop software applications to support their business processes (BPs). The development of high quality software is a very complex process that requires vast amounts of knowledge and skills both in software development itself and in the application domain. Despite the continuous evolution in the software engineering, software development process remains complex. Practice has shown that software industry continues to face many problems due to extra cost, extended delivery time and bad quality, the latter is costing US companies about $100 billion per year in lost productivity.***To the extent that software applications are developed to support organizations' BPs, software models should somehow reflect the BPs that they support. Thanks to advances in BP modelling and model-driven engineering (MDE), we believe that we can use the correspondence between BPs and the software applications that support them to obtain software models. This is the premise behind the present research program that aims to bridge the gap between BPs and software applications using an MDE approach. The long-term objective of the proposed research program is to provide organizations with an MDE method that characterizes the transformations from BP models to software models expressed as services within the service-oriented architecture (SOA) style. More specifically, we are interested in exploring two transformations:******Transformation 1. Transition from generic process models to precise organization-specific process models.***Our approach to specify SOA models from models of the processes that they are supposed to support relies on the availability of detailed organization-specific BP models. However, modelling an organization-specific BP with enough detail requires an inordinate amount of effort of analysts and process designers. My doctoral and post-doctoral research focused on elaborating methods, techniques and tools to automatically obtain organization-specific BP models from generic BP models, and the results showed promise. In this research program, I will propose to address the fundamental issues raised by the approach.******Transformation 2. Transition from precise business process models to SOA models.***This transition aims at elaborating a new method, techniques and tools that characterizes the transformations from BP models to detailed SOA software models.******The proposed research program will produce new scientific contributions in the software engineering field. From a practical perspective, it will elaborate a novel method supported by tools and a framework that help organizations to generate SOA-based software from generic BPs. By automating this process, we will reduce the software development complexity and enhance software quality which is an actual concern of the software industry. Finally, this research will contribute to the training of new HQP (PhD and MSc students).

组织开发软件应用程序来支持其业务流程 (BP)。高质量软件的开发是一个非常复杂的过程，需要软件开发本身和应用程序领域的大量知识和技能。尽管软件工程不断发展，软件开发过程仍然复杂。实践表明，软件行业继续面临着由于额外成本、交付时间延长和质量差而导致的许多问题，后者每年给美国公司造成约1000亿美元的生产力损失。***如果软件应用程序是为了支持组织的业务流程而开发的，那么软件模型应该以某种方式反映它们所支持的业务流程。由于BP建模和模型驱动工程（MDE）的进步，我们相信我们可以利用BP和支持它们的软件应用程序之间的对应关系来获取软件模型。这是当前研究项目背后的前提，该项目旨在使用 MDE 方法弥合 BP 和软件应用程序之间的差距。所提议的研究计划的长期目标是为组织提供一种 MDE 方法，该方法描述从 BP 模型到以面向服务的架构 (SOA) 风格内的服务表示的软件模型的转换。更具体地说，我们有兴趣探索两种转变：******转变 1. 从通用流程模型转变为精确的特定于组织的流程模型。***我们从应该支持的流程模型中指定 SOA 模型的方法依赖于详细的特定于组织的 BP 模型的可用性。 然而，要对特定于组织的 BP 进行足够详细的建模，需要分析师和流程设计者付出大量的努力。我的博士和博士后研究重点是阐述从通用 BP 模型中自动获取组织特定 BP 模型的方法、技术和工具，结果显示出希望。在这个研究计划中，我将建议解决该方法提出的基本问题。******转型 2. 从精确的业务流程模型到 SOA 模型的转变。***这一转变旨在阐述一种新的方法、技术和工具，以表征从 BP 模型到详细的 SOA 软件模型的转变。******所提出的研究计划将在软件工程领域产生新的科学贡献。从实践的角度来看，它将阐述一种由工具和框架支持的新颖方法，帮助组织从通用 BP 生成基于 SOA 的软件。通过自动化这个过程，我们将降低软件开发的复杂性并提高软件质量，这是软件行业真正关心的问题。最后，这项研究将有助于培训新的 HQP（博士生和硕士生）。