Víctor Anaya

The Unified Enterprise Modelling Language—Overview and further work

The Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) aims at supporting integrated use of enterprise and IS models expressed using different languages. To achieve this aim, UEML offers a hub through which modelling languages can be connected, thereby paving the way for also connecting the models expressed in those languages. This paper motivates and presents the most central parts of the UEML approach: a structured path to describing enterprise and IS modelling constructs; a common ontology to interrelate construct descriptions at the semantic level; a correspondence analysis approach to estimate semantic construct similarity; a quality framework to aid selection of languages; a meta-meta model to integrate the different parts of the approach; and a set of tools to aid its use and evolution. The paper also discusses the benefits of UEML and points to paths for further work.

How enterprise architectures can support integration

This article states the importance of Enterprise Architectures as a way to identify interoperability problems. Enterprise Architectures provide a common view of the primary resources of any enterprise (people, processes and technology) and how they integrate to provide the primary drivers of the enterprise. The authors of this work sketch an example where different kinds of integration problems are detected. Tracing enterprise information is mandatory to manage enterprises. Therefore, in this work there are identified and established different types of alignment relationships between the artifacts composing an Enterprise Architecture.

The Unified Enterprise Modelling Language – Overview and Further Work

The Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) aims to support integrated use of enterprise and IS models expressed in a variety of languages. To achieve this aim, UEML provides a hub through which different languages can be connected, thereby paving the way for connecting the models expressed in those languages. UEML offers a structured approach to describing enterprise and IS modelling constructs, a common ontology to interrelate construct descriptions at the semantic level, a correspondence analysis approach to estimate semantic construct similarity, a quality framework to aid selection of languages, a meta-meta model to organise the UEML and a set of tools to aid its use and evolution. This paper presents an overview of UEML and points to paths for further work.

Deriving Enterprise Engineering and Integration Frameworks from Supply Chain Management Practices

Enterprise Engineering and Enterprise Integration have been leveraged as key topics in Enterprise Management. Since the 80s multiple approaches, methodologies, languages and, frameworks have been proposed. Despite the numerous results currently existing, new trends and solutions are continuously emerging. This paper provides a landscape of the current problems on Enterprise Engineering and Integration, the strategies, solutions and our vision about future trends.

IDR: A Proposal for Managing Inter-Organizational Business Processes by Using Web-Services Oriented Architectures

Collaborative Networked Organizations are gaining more attention from research bodies and academics as an emergent form of conducting business.

Automatic derivation of DAML-S service specifications from UML business models

Todays trend in Web engineering is the automation of Web service interoperation. With this aim, web content is noted with semantic information, using Web Semantic languages. Web Services is becoming the leading technology that provides functionality of an enterprise. This functionality carries out the activities that form a process. Business processes are a set of activities that can be seen as offered business services. Therefore, this article presents a process to derive web services specifications and service composition from business models. The paper considers DAML-S as the web services markup language to represent the description of web services and specify their composition. Rational Unified Process business model is the language used as input. The article shows the set of derivation rules that allows the atomatic generation of DAML-S modules from business models.