Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive Information
<|reference_start|>Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive Information: Business systems these days need to be agile to address the needs of a changing world. In particular the discipline of Enterprise Application Integration requires business process management to be highly reconfigurable with the ability to support dynamic workflows, inter-application integration and process reconfiguration. Basing EAI systems on model-resident or on a so-called description-driven approach enables aspects of flexibility, distribution, system evolution and integration to be addressed in a domain-independent manner. Such a system called CRISTAL is described in this paper with particular emphasis on its application to EAI problem domains. A practical example of the CRISTAL technology in the domain of manufacturing systems, called Agilium, is described to demonstrate the principles of model-driven system evolution and integration. The approach is compared to other model-driven development approaches such as the Model-Driven Architecture of the OMG and so-called Adaptive Object Models.<|reference_end|>
@article{gaspard2003managing,
    title={Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive
  Information},
    author={Sebastien Gaspard, Florida Estrella, Richard McClatchey & Regis
  Dindeleux},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0310048},
    year={2003},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0310048},
    primaryClass={cs.SE cs.DB}
}