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以支持其业务流程（BPS）。高质量软件的开发是一个非常复杂的过程，在软件开发本身和应用领域中都需要大量的知识和技能。尽管软件工程的不断发展，但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不佳，软件行业继续遇到许多问题，后者每年损失生产力约1000亿美元。得益于BP建模和模型驱动工程（MDE）的进步，我们相信我们可以使用BPS和支持它们获得软件模型的软件应用程序之间的对应关系。这是本研究计划的前提，旨在使用MDE方法弥合BPS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为组织提供一种MDE方法，该方法表征了从BP模型转换为以服务为导向的体系结构（SOA）样式中服务的软件模型的转换。更具体地说，我们有兴趣探索两个转换：******转换1。从通用过程模型到精确的组织特定过程模型的过渡。 但是，对特定于组织的BP进行足够细节的建模需要分析师和过程设计师的大量努力。我的博士学位和博士后研究的重点是详细阐述方法，技术和工具，以自动从通用BP模型中获取特定组织的BP模型，结果表明了希望。在该研究计划中，我将建议解决该方法提出的基本问题。******转换2。从精确的业务流程模型过渡到SOA模型。***此过渡旨在阐述一种新方法，技术和工具，这些方法和工具是从BP模型到详细的SOA软件模型的转变。从实际的角度来看，它将详细说明一种新的方法，该方法由工具和一个框架支持，该方法可帮助组织从通用BPS生成基于SOA的软件。通过自动化此过程，我们将降低软件开发的复杂性并增强软件质量，这是软件行业的实际关注点。最后，这项研究将有助于培训新的HQP（博士学位和MSC学生）。