A methodology for domain-specific business process modelling and implementation Online publication date: Sun, 12-Jul-2009
by Steen Brahe, Behzad Bordbar
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), Vol. 4, No. 1, 2009
Abstract: Design and implementation of a business process in an enterprise often requires three groups of experts: business analysts, solution architects and developers. They collaborate to transform a high-level business process to a final executable system based on e.g. BPEL. Since enterprises often utilise their own domain concepts and use technologies in their own specific ways, standard modelling notations and transformations are insufficient. In this paper, we present a methodology to support and semi-automate the transformation of models into an implementation. It advocates the use of a set of domain-specific modelling languages explicitly designed for an enterprise where each language is tailored for the use of one of the three groups of experts. This enables creation of precise and machine-readable models by using domain concepts familiar to the experts. Further, the domain knowledge required for transforming models from one language to another is captured as reusable transformation patterns.
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