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: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=679255
• 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他们的业务流程（BP）。开发高质量的软件是一个非常复杂的过程，需要大量的知识和技能，无论是在软件开发本身和应用领域。尽管软件工程不断发展，软件开发过程仍然很复杂。实践表明，由于额外的成本、延长的交付时间和质量差，软件行业继续面临许多问题，后者每年使美国公司损失约1000亿美元的生产力。在某种程度上，软件应用程序是为了支持组织的BP而开发的，软件模型应该以某种方式反映它们所支持的BP。由于BP建模和模型驱动工程（MDE）的进步，我们相信我们可以使用BP和支持它们的软件应用程序之间的对应关系来获得软件模型。这是本研究计划背后的前提，该计划旨在使用MDE方法弥合BP和软件应用程序之间的差距。拟议的研究计划的长期目标是提供组织与MDE方法，其特征的转换，从BP模型的软件模型表示为服务内的面向服务的体系结构（SOA）风格。更具体地说，我们有兴趣探索两个转换：* 转换1。从通用过程模型过渡到精确的组织特定过程模型。*我们的方法是根据SOA模型应该支持的流程模型来指定SOA模型，这种方法依赖于详细的组织特定BP模型的可用性。 然而，建模一个组织特定的BP与足够的细节，需要大量的分析师和流程设计师的努力。我的博士和博士后研究集中在阐述方法，技术和工具，以自动获得组织特定的BP模型从通用BP模型，结果显示的承诺。在本研究计划中，我将提出解决该方法提出的基本问题。*变形2.从精确的业务流程模型过渡到SOA模型。*这种转变的目的是详细阐述一种新的方法、技术和工具，以表征从BP模型到详细的SOA软件模型的转换。该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，它将详细阐述一种由工具和框架支持的新方法，帮助组织从通用BP生成基于SOA的软件。通过自动化这一过程，我们将降低软件开发的复杂性，提高软件质量，这是软件业的实际关注。最后，本研究将有助于培养新的HQP（博士和硕士生）。