1999/07/21 by J. -M. Le Goff, Goff, J. -M. Le, Ian Willers +7
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Database Systems and Queries #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Semantic Web and Ontologies #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/9907035
14 pages, 13 figures. Presented at the 3rd Enterprise Distributed Object Computing EDOC'99 conference. Mannheim, Germany. September 1999
arxiv created 1999/07/21 · openalex publication_date 1999/07/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In data modelling, product information has most often been handled separately from process information. The integration of product and process models in a unified data model could provide the means by which information could be shared across an enterprise throughout the system lifecycle from design through to production. Recently attempts have been made to integrate these two separate views of systems through identifying common data models. This paper relates description-driven systems to multi-layer architectures and reveals where existing design patterns facilitate the integration of product and process models and where patterns are missing or where existing patterns require enrichment for this integration. It reports on the construction of a so-called description-driven system which integrates Product Data Management (PDM) and Workflow Management (WfM) data models through a common meta-model.