An MDA-Based Method for Designing Integration Process Models in B2B Collaborations

IVANNA M. LAZARTE; PABLO D. VILLARREAL; OMAR CHIOTTI; LUCINÉIA HELOISA THOM; CIRANO IOCHPE

Beijin

Conferencia; 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems; 2011

The  design  of  integration  processes  is  a  key  issue  for  implementing  collaborative  business  processes  in Business-to-Business collaborations.  A collaborative process is executed through the enactment of the integration process of each organization, which contains the public and private logic required to support the role an organization performs in the collaborative process.  Integration process models must be aligned with and derived from their corresponding collaborative process models to guarantee interoperability among organizations.  In this work, we propose a method based on a Model-Driven Architecture to enable organizations to support and automate the design of integration process models. This method provides a model transformation process that uses Workflow Activity Patterns to generate the public/private activities required in integrationprocesses to support cross-organizational message exchanges.