Conceptual Modeling of Business Artifacts and their Implementation as Active XML
| Thesis title in Czech: | Conceptual Modeling of Business Artifacts and their Implementation as Active XML |
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| Thesis title in English: | Conceptual Modeling of Business Artifacts and their Implementation as Active XML |
| Key words: | conceptual modeling; xml schemas; business artifacts; active XML |
| English key words: | conceptual modeling; xml schemas; business artifacts; active XML |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2011/2012 |
| Thesis type: | diploma thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Software Engineering (32-KSI) |
| Supervisor: | doc. Mgr. Martin Nečaský, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 21.09.2012 |
| Date of assignment: | 21.09.2012 |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 04.10.2012 |
| Date and time of defence: | 27.05.2013 10:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 11.04.2013 |
| Date of submission of printed version: | 12.04.2013 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 27.05.2013 |
| Opponents: | doc. Ing. Karel Richta, CSc. |
| Guidelines |
| IBM currently develops a new method for defining business process models with so called business artifacts [1]. A business artifact (e.g. purchase order) is a central point of a business process. An artifact centric business process model describes how an artifact develops in its life-cycle. An open question is how to implement the artifact in the run-time environment. A promising possibility is to implement it as an Active XML document [2] which is an incomplete XML document whose parts are dynamically completed in run-time. The question is how to model the impelemetation of the business artifact as an Active XML document.
In this thesis, the author will start with studying the principles of business artifacts and Active XML documents. He will then extend the framework for design and evolution of XML schemas [3] developed by XML and Web Engineering Research Group for the purposes of business artifact modeling and implementing the artifacts as Active XML documents. The author will implement the extension in the eXolutio tool [4] and he will perform experiments. |
| References |
| [1] https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_page.php?id=1710
[2] Serge Abiteboul, Omar Benjellourn, Ioana Manolescu, Tova Milo, and Roger Weber. 2002. Active XML: peer-to-peer data and web services integration. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '02). VLDB Endowment 1087-1090. [3] Nečaský, M., Mlýnková, I.: On Different Perspectives of XML Schema Evolution, in 4th International Workshop on Flexible Database and Information System Technology, Linz, Austria, IEEE Computer Society, September 2009. [4] http://www.eXolutio.com |