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Combining goal-oriented and model-driven approaches to solve the Payment Problem Scenario
Motivated by the objective to provide an improved participation of business domain experts in the design of service-oriented integration solutions, we extend our previous work on using the COSMO methodology for service mediation by introducing a goal-oriented approach to requirements engineering. With this approach, business requirements including the motivations behind the mediation solution are better understood, specified, and aligned with their technical implementations. We use the Payment Problem Scenario of the SWS Challenge to illustrate the extension
Analyzing Strategic Business Rules through Simulation Modeling
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) holds promise for business
agility since it allows business process to change to meet new customer demands
or market needs without causing a cascade effect of changes in the underlying
IT systems. Business rules are the instrument chosen to help business
and IT to collaborate. In this paper, we propose the utilization of simulation
models to model and simulate strategic business rules that are then disaggregated
at different levels of an SOA architecture. Our proposal is aimed to help
find a good configuration for strategic business objectives and IT parameters.
The paper includes a case study where a simulation model is built to help business
decision-making in a context where finding a good configuration for different
business parameters and performance is too complex to analyze by trial
and error.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-67843-C06-0