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Title:
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USING MULTIPLE PROCESS MODELS TO CREATE REFERENCE MODELS FOR SOA FRAMEWORKS |
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Author(s):
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Balbir Barn , Hilary Dexter , Samia Oussena , Jim Petch2 |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-09-7 |
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Editors:
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Nuno Guimarães, Pedro Isaías and Ambrosio Goikoetxea |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Reference model, process model, course validation. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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345 |
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Last Page:
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352 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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Improving business processes and services is a challenge that can be met by a model driven approach to service design and development. This approach rests on defining reference models of the enterprise business processes that will become the drivers of service frameworks. As part of a national program for developing such models within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework for e-learning and research in higher education, a canonical reference model for course validation was used as a case to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach. Course validation processes in four UK Higher education Institutions (HEIs) were analyzed and modeled using interviews and process documentation. Each institutions process was modeled with UML Activity Diagrams and its domain information with Class Diagrams. The four models were synthesized into a single canonical model of the validation process. This required resolving process model structures and granularity. Synthesis of the canonical model demonstrated a basis for developing service specifications, within a SOA framework that could serve all institutions in the sector. |
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