Collaborative Business Process Specification and a Mapping from BPMN Model to Service Model

Abstract

To be more competitive in a market that has become more open and globalized, enterprises must integrate various industrial networks and have to open their information system to share and exchange information with partners. Therefore, the business process collaboration has become a necessity within firms. To address this problematic, we propose a collaborative approach divided on three levels according to MDA approach. The CIM level addresses the design of the collaborative business process (CBP). Several works proved that partners are not able to provide and make available the CBP. Therefore, to answer this need, we propose a knowledge-based system (KbS) that deals with partners’ knowledge and collaborative network knowledge to provide the most appropriate CBP. The KbS development is divided into two parts: the acquisition of participants’ information and the collaborative situation knowledge. The second part consists of a proposition of two ontologies, the collaborative network ontology (CNO) and the business process ontology (BPO. The goal of these ontologies is to represent and reason knowledge captured from the first step, we deduce at this level the collaborative business process model. Then, the last step is dedicated to the design of CBP using BPMN language and based on the extracted information from the KbS. In the PIM level, the CBP is transformed in a service model according to a set of transformation rules. In this paper, we will present the theoretical aspects of each step within the approach as well as the tools used to develop it. Finally, we will illustrate our proposal with a case study.
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