Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse

First Experiences on Constraining Consistency and Adaptivity of W2000 Models

The complexity of Web applications is increasing almost every day. Besides impacting the implementation phase, this complexity must also be suitably managed while modeling the application. The paper argues that a pure modeling notation, like W2000, is not enough to cope with such complexity and proposes an approach, based on meta-modeling and graph transformation, to enforce the consistency of produced artifacts and adapt them in a controlled way. The paper describes the approach, exemplifies it on some simple examples, and sketches the supporting framework on which we are working

First Experiences on Constraining Consistency and Adaptivity of W2000 Models

The complexity of Web applications is increasing almost ev-ery day. Besides impacting the implementation phase, this complexity must also be suitably managed while modeling the application. The paper argues that a pure modeling notation, like W2000, is not enough to cope with such com-plexity and proposes an approach, based on meta-modeling and graph transformation, to enforce the consistency of pro-duced artifacts and adapt them in a controlled way. The paper describes the approach, exemplifies it on some simple examples, and sketches the supporting framework on which we are working