Registering UML models for global and local choreographies

ABSTRACT

A local choreography describes how a business partner - from his perspective - interacts with other business partners. If local choreographies are developed in isolation, the local choreographies of different partners will not match. A global choreography, which describes the interactions from a neutral perspective, may serve as an agreement model between the partners and each partner may derive his local choreography. Global choreographies developed by standard organizations, industry consortia, or market leaders should be publicly available. Furthermore, business partners have to register their local choreographies and bind it to the supported global choreographies. In this paper we present an appropriate registry meta model that customizes the ebXML registry for the purpose of registering UML-based models for global and local choreographies and maintaining the dependencies between them.

REFERENCES

• 1: Ali ShaikhAli , Omer F. Rana , Rashid Al-Ali , David W. Walker, UDDIe: An Extended Registry for Web Services, Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINT'03 Workshops), p.85, January 27-31, 2003
• 2: Grady Booch , James Rumbaugh , Ivar Jacobson, Unified Modeling Language User Guide, The (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series), Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005
• 3: G. Decker, O. Kopp, F. Leymann, and M. Weske. Bpel4chor: Extending bpel for modeling choreographies. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), pages 296--303. IEEE Computer Society, 2007.
• 4: Asuman Dogac , Yildiray Kabak , Gokce B. Laleci, Enriching ebXML Registries with OWL Ontologies for Efficient Service Discovery, Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government Applications (RIDE'04), p.69-76, March 28-29, 2004
• 5: M. Hammer and J. Champy. Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution. Harper Business, 1993.
• 6: B. Hofreiter. Extending UN/CEFACTs modeling methodology by a UML profile for local choreographies. Journal on Information Systems and E-Business Management, 0(0), 2008. to appear, online first: 10.1007/s10257-008-0083-3.
• 7: B. Hofreiter and C. Huemer. Transforming UMM Business Collaboration Models to BPEL. In OTM 2004 Workshops, volume 3292 of LNCS, pages 507--519, 2004.
• 8: B. Hofreiter, C. Huemer, and J.-H. Kim. Choreography of ebxml business collaborations. Inf. Syst. E-Business Management, 4(3):221--243, 2006.
• 9: ISO. Open-edi reference model, 1995. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC30 ISO Standard 14662.
• 10: N. Kavantzas, D. Bardett, G. Ritzinger, T. Fletcher, Y. Lafon, and C. Barreto. Web services choreography description language, 2005. Version 1.0, http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-cdl-10/.
• 11: Rania Khalaf, From RosettaNet PIPs to BPEL processes: A three level approach for business protocols, Data & Knowledge Engineering, v.61 n.1, p.23-38, April, 2007 [doi>10.1016/j.datak.2006.04.006]
• 12: B. Korherr and B. List. Extending the uml 2 activity diagram with business process goals and performance measures and the mapping to bpel. In Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice, ER 2006 Workshops, volume 4231, pages 7--18. Springer LNCS, 2006.
• 13: D. Kraemer and P. Yendluri. Realizing the benefits of implementing rosettanet implementation framework (rnif) version 2.0, 2002. http://www.rosettanet.org/cms/export/sites/default/RosettaNet/Downloads/whitePapers/RNIF2finalv3.pdf.
• 14: G. Kramler, E. Kapsammer, G. Kappel, and W. Retschitzegger. Towards using uml 2 for modelling web service collaboration protocols. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications (INTEROP-ESA'05), 2005.
• 15: Ronald M. Lee, Documentary Petri Nets: A Modeling Representation for Electronic Trade Procedures, Business Process Management, Models, Techniques, and Empirical Studies, p.359-375, January 2000
• 16: K. Lenz and A. Oberweis. Inter-organizational business process management with xml nets. In Petri Net Technology for Communication-Based Systems, volume 2472, pages 243--263. Springer LNCS, 2003.
• 17: F. Leymann, D. Roller, and M.-T. Schmidt. Web services and business process management. IBM Systems Journal, 41(2), 2002.
• 18: Sea Ling , Seng Wai Loke, Advanced Petri Nets for Modelling Mobile Agent Enabled Interorganizational Workflows, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, p.245-252, April 08-11, 2002
• 19: B. List and B. Korherr. A uml 2 profile for business process modelling. In ER 2005 Workshops Proceedings, 2005.
• 20: Wei Liu , Keqing He , Wudong Liu, Design and Realization of ebXML Registry Classification Model Based on Ontology, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume II, p.809-814, April 04-06, 2005 [doi>10.1109/ITCC.2005.122]
• 21: OASIS. UDDI Specification 3.0.2, Oct. 2004. 'http://uddi.org/pubs/uddi_v3.htm'.
• 22: OASIS. ebXML Business Process Specification Schema Technical Specification 2.0.4, Dec. 2006. http://docs.oasisopen.org/ebxml-bp/2.0.4/ebxmlbp-v2.0.4-Spec-os-en.pdf.
• 23: OASIS. Web Services Business Process Execution Language Version 2.0, Jan. 2007. Version 2.0, Commitee Specification.
• 24: Chris Peltz, Web Services Orchestration and Choreography, Computer, v.36 n.10, p.46-52, October 2003 [doi>10.1109/MC.2003.1236471]
• 25: Hans-Erik Eriksson , Magnus Penker, Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1998
• 26: Giacomo Piccinelli , Wolfgang Emmerich , Christian Zirpins , Kevin Schütt, Web Service Interfaces for Inter-Organisational Business Processes: An Infrastructure for Automated Reconciliation, Proceedings of the 6th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, p.285-292, September 17-20, 2002
• 27: UN/CEFACT. UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (UMM), UMM Meta Model - Foundation Module, Mar. 2006. Technical Specification V1.0, http://www.unece.org/cefact/umm/UMM_Foundation_Module.pdf.
• 28: W. M. van der Aalst. Interorganizational workflows: An approach based on message sequence charts and petri nets. Systems Analysis - Modelling - Simulation, 34(3):335--367, 1999.
• 29: W. M. P. Van Der Aalst, Inheritance of Interorganizational Workflows to Enable Business-to-Business E-Commerce, Electronic Commerce Research, v.2 n.3, p.195-231, July 2002 [doi>10.1023/A:1016031730365]
• 30: Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Mathias Weske, The P2P Approach to Interorganizational Workflows, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, p.140-156, June 04-08, 2001
• 31: W3C. Web Ontoloty Language (OWL). W3C. http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/.
• 32: S. A. White. Business process modeling notation specification 1.0, 2006. http://www.omg.org/docs/dtc/06-02-01.pdf.
• 33: Yohan Roh , Hangkyu Kim , Hak Soo Kim , Myoung Ho Kim , Jin Hyun Son, Semantic Business Registry Information Model, Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Convergence Information Technology, p.2142-2145, November 21-23, 2007 [doi>10.1109/ICCIT.2007.349]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.1 ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING
      Subjects: Business

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.1 Office Automation
          Subjects: Workflow management

Keywords:
B2B standardization, UN/CEFACT's modeling methodology, business process modeling, inter-organizational business process modeling, inter-organizational systems