Christian Huemer
ABSTRACT
The development of inter-organizational systems requires a well defined development process. UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (UMM) provides such a development process. We served as the editing team of the UMM 1.0 foundation module, which is defined as a UML profile. First experiences of applying UMM in real world projects have disclosed some limitations. Accordingly, we propose integrating new concepts into a new version 2.0 of UMM. In this paper, we show the adapted UMM development process, which is demonstrated by means of a waste management example.
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- The development process of the UN/CEFACT modeling methodology
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Markus Wolf
This paper describes UMM 2.0, the current release of the modeling methodology of the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), an international e-business standardization body that has already been involved in several well-known electronic data interchange standards, such as Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport (EDIFACT) and electronic business using Extensible Markup Language (ebXML). In 1998, the standardization body started the development of a modeling methodology, UMM, as a set of modeling guidelines for the unified modeling language (UML). Later on, in 2006, the methodology was formalized as a UML profile and finalized in the UMM 1.0 standard. At first, applying UMM in practice revealed several shortcomings, due to be addressed in a new version of the standard, UMM 2.0. The core of the changed methodology is the topic of the paper. The paper starts with an introductory section that recaps the history as described in the previous paragraph. Section 2, "Business Requirements View," describes the first view to be constructed in the methodology. The main subviews are the business domain view, which consists of business process use cases with corresponding business process activity diagrams, and the business entity view, which describes the business entities handled by the processes and the life cycle of those entities. Section 3 describes the next step in the modeling methodology, the so-called business choreography view, which consists of the business transaction view, the business collaboration view, and the business realization view. Business transactions are use cases that synchronize the state of a business entity between two parties. This view consists of use case diagrams and corresponding activity diagrams. The collaborations are used to express the execution order of different business transactions and are the modeled view business collaboration protocols (special activity diagrams). Finally, the realization view provides the mapping of concrete actors and use cases to the abstract actors and use cases of the previous views. The final view of the UMM is the business information view, which provides the data model of the business documents exchanged in business transactions. This is a class diagram enriched by a predefined set of so-called core components predefined by UN/CEFACT. The paper closes with a section on related work and a conclusion. The methodology is illustrated via the example of a waste management system. The paper is well written and easy to understand. It is of interest not only to analysts planning to work in an international governmental framework where application of the UMM may be required, but also to business analysts in general, since the analytical methodology of the UMM can be used as a guideline in creating UML models for other application domains. Online Computing Reviews Service
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