2003/10/24 by Sébastien Gaspard, Sebastien Gaspard, Florida Estrella +7
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Engineering · #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #Databases (cs.DB) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H3.4 #K4.4 #Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #cs.DB #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0310048
12 pages, 4 figures. Presented at the eCOMO'2003 4th Int. Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Approaches for e-Business
arxiv created 2003/10/24 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Business systems these days need to be agile to address the needs of a changing world. In particular the discipline of Enterprise Application Integration requires business process management to be highly reconfigurable with the ability to support dynamic workflows, inter-application integration and process reconfiguration. Basing EAI systems on model-resident or on a so-called description-driven approach enables aspects of flexibility, distribution, system evolution and integration to be addressed in a domain-independent manner. Such a system called CRISTAL is described in this paper with particular emphasis on its application to EAI problem domains. A practical example of the CRISTAL technology in the domain of manufacturing systems, called Agilium, is described to demonstrate the principles of model-driven system evolution and integration. The approach is compared to other model-driven development approaches such as the Model-Driven Architecture of the OMG and so-called Adaptive Object Models.