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User interface derivation from business processes: a model-driven approach for organizational engineering

Authors:

Hildeberto Mendonça,

Jean Vanderdonckt,

Joannes VandermeulenAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 553 - 560

https://doi.org/10.1145/1363686.1363821

Published: 16 March 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This paper defines a model-driven approach for organizational engineering in which user interfaces of information systems are derived from business processes. This approach consists of four steps: business process modeling in the context of organizational engineering, task model derivation from the business process model, task refinement, and user interface model derivation from the task model. Each step contributes to specify and refine mappings between the source and the target model. In this way, each model modification could be adequately propagated in the rest of the chain. By applying this model-driven approach, the user interfaces of the information systems are directly meeting the requirements of the business processes and are no longer decoupled from them. This approach has been validated on a case study in a large bank-insurance company.

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