Transforming Collaborative Process Models into Interface Process Models by Applying an MDA Approach.

LAZATE, IVANNA; CHIOTTI, OMAR; DAVID VILLARREAL, PABLO

Congreso; 9th IFIP WG 6.1. Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society; 2009

Collaborative business models among enterprises require defining collaborative business processes. Based on these processes, enterprises implement B2B collaborations. In B2B collaborations the integration and interoperability of the information systems of the enterprises is required for automating the execution of collaborative business processes. From a collaborative process model, which represents the global view of the enterprise interactions, each enterprise must define the interface process that represents the role it performs in the collaborative process in order to implement the process in a Business Process Management System (BPMS). Therefore, in this paper we propose a method for the automatic generation of the interface process model of each enterprise from a collaborative process model. This method is based on a model-driven architecture to transform collaborative process models into interface process models. By applying this method, interface processes are guaranteed to be interoperable and defined according to the collaborative process.