Abstract
In recent years, the automation of business processes has become one of the most prominent
and promising uses of Web service technology. Consequently several languages have
been created for the execution of business processes, making it possible to define new
and more complex services or business processes which are implemented for example
by means of Web service composition. Nevertheless, these kinds of languages are not
suitable for use in the early stages of the development process of information systems.
Special methodologies or techniques are therefore necessary to allow systems analysts to
understand services from a business point of view, while facilitating the design and development
ofWeb service composition. In this paper, we present a service-oriented approach
to information system development that starts by identifying, through business modeling,
the services required by the customers of a business, to make it possible to create a
Web service composition model. This model will facilitate the transformation to specific
languages for business process execution, thereby reducing the development efforts made
in service-oriented applications. The method proposed is illustrated by means of a Web
application for the management of medical images, which we have taken as a case study.
Original language | Undefined |
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Article number | 10.1142/S0218843009002038 |
Pages (from-to) | 225-260 |
Number of pages | 36 |
Journal | International journal of cooperative information systems |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- SCS-Services
- METIS-264068
- EWI-16156
- IR-68172