Supporting the SPEM with a UML Extended Workflow Metamodel

The specification, analysis, and administration of business processes have charged great importance in this last time. This has been caused by a competitive industry necessity, dynamics, where she use the available resources efficiently. The "Workflow" technologies has given answer to these requirements, offering support for the partial or total automation of production processes. The necessities of software industry are not different. In constant search of quality products, engineers and analysts work optimizing software methodologies development. In this paper we propose a mapping between two metamodels used for the business processes specification. The first metamodel, is Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) for development processes modeling. The second, UML Ex-tended Workflow Metamodel (UMLEWM), is a extension of Unified Modeling Language Metamodel (UML) for workflows processes modeling. With this mapping we propose ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: AICCSA
• Authors: Narayan C. Debnath, Daniel Riesco, Manuel Pérez Cota, J. Baltasar García Perez-Schofield, Daniel Romero, Marcelo Uva
• Keywords: AICCSA 2006, Business Processes, Ex-tended Workflow Metamodel, Software Process Engineering Metamodel