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Automated Two-phase Business Model-driven Synthesis of Conceptual Database Models

Drazen Brdjanin¹, Danijela Banjac¹, Goran Banjac¹ and Slavko Maric¹

1. University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
   Patre 5, 78 000 Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
   {drazen.brdjanin, danijela.banjac, goran.banjac, slavko.maric}@etf.unibl.org

Abstract

Existing approaches to business process model-driven synthesis of data models are characterized by a direct synthesis of a target model based on source models represented by concrete notations, where the synthesis is supported by monolithic (semi)automatic transformation programs. This article presents an approach to automated two-phase business process model-driven synthesis of conceptual database models. It is based on the introduction of a domain specific language (DSL) as an intermediate layer between different source notations and the target notation, which splits the synthesis into two phases: (i) automatic extraction of specific concepts from the source model and their DSL-based representation, and (ii) automated generation of the target model based on the DSL-based representation of the extracted concepts. The proposed approach enables development of modular transformation tools for automatic synthesis of the target model based on business process models represented by different concrete notations. In this article we present an online generator, which implements the proposed approach. The generator is implemented as a web-based, service-oriented tool, which enables automatic generation of the initial conceptual database model represented by the UML class diagram, based on business models represented by two concrete notations.

Key words

BPMN, business process model, conceptual database model, domain specific language, extractor, generator, model-driven, service-oriented, UML

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS123456789X

Publication information

Volume 16, Issue 2 (June 2019)
Year of Publication: 2019
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Brdjanin, D., Banjac, D., Banjac, G., Maric, S.: Automated Two-phase Business Model-driven Synthesis of Conceptual Database Models. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 16, No. 2, 657-688. (2019), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS123456789X