Title: Towards using visual process models to control enterprise systems functionalities

Authors: Jens Weller, Martin Juhrisch, Werner Esswein

Addresses: Department of Business Management and Economics, Chair for Information Systems, esp. Systems Engineering, Technische Universitat Dresden, Saxony, Germany. ' Center of Information, Communication and Media, Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ' Department of Business Management and Economics, Chair for Information Systems, esp. Systems Engineering, Technische Universitat Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a model-driven approach for web-service development with the intention of IT infrastructure integration in enterprise models. This implies the extension of existing conceptual modelling languages with language constructs that aim at model information transparency on a web-service basis. Therefore, we assess the grammatical specification of conceptual modelling languages for business domains. Acting on the language meta-level means in this context the introduction of web-service-related constructs into widely used visual modelling grammars. The vision is the situation-dependent adaptation of software functionality to the actual documented utilisation. Economical relevance results from the reduction of significant discrepancies between enterprise systems functionalities and business requirements.

Keywords: enterprise architecture; enterprise modelling; model-driven architecture; visual modelling; web services; workflow; process modelling; web-service development; information technology; infrastructure integration; conceptual modelling languages; networking; virtual organisations.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2006.011869

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2006 Vol.3 No.4, pp.412 - 424

Published online: 28 Dec 2006 *

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