Viewpoints reconciliation in services design: A model-driven approach for highly collaborative environments

Abstract

In highly collaborative business contexts, services design is even more important than in other contexts, as services are more complex and involve multiple and composed services. Such contexts are ideal for service composition and thus service reuse. This paper presents an ongoing research project whose goal is to support the design of such services by reconciling different viewpoints, following a model-driven approach. It focuses on the so-called "transactional aspects" of the service design, corresponding to the processes realizing the service and showing services compositions between the involved parties. It is applied to a case study in the construction sector. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.