GSM Model Construction from Enterprise Models

Imen Jellali, Mounira Ben Abdallah, Nahla Zaaboub Haddar, Hanêne Ben-Abdallah

2015

Abstract

Business process analysis is an essential tool to assess how well a business is meeting its goals. However, the process analysis phase may fail in some cases because it focuses either on the data perspective and ignores business activities, or on the functional and behavioral perspectives of the business process and overlooks the data. Indeed, traditional analysis approaches are based on models that do not represent all of these business process perspectives together. Recently, Entity-Centric Modeling has been proposed as a promising approach for the design of business processes based on so-called business entities. It aims to bring together business goals, business operations and business data in a natural way. In this paper, we propose a method to design an enterprise view based on business entities in order to bring together data and processes in a coherent and consistent way. The constructed view provides for an integrated analysis of data and processes. Our method takes as input a domain class diagram of the enterprise information system and a BPMN model representing its business process model, and it constructs a business entity model using the Guard-Stage-Milestone (GSM) language.

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Jellali I., Ben Abdallah M., Zaaboub Haddar N. and Ben-Abdallah H. (2015). GSM Model Construction from Enterprise Models . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-113-7, pages 100-108. DOI: 10.5220/0005573301000108


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@conference{ice-b15,
author={Imen Jellali and Mounira Ben Abdallah and Nahla Zaaboub Haddar and Hanêne Ben-Abdallah},
title={GSM Model Construction from Enterprise Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={100-108},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005573301000108},
isbn={978-989-758-113-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2015)
TI - GSM Model Construction from Enterprise Models
SN - 978-989-758-113-7
AU - Jellali I.
AU - Ben Abdallah M.
AU - Zaaboub Haddar N.
AU - Ben-Abdallah H.
PY - 2015
SP - 100
EP - 108
DO - 10.5220/0005573301000108