Fostering Reuse in Choreography Modeling Through Choreography Fragments

Andreas Weiß, Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Michael Hahn, Dimka Karastoyanova

2015

Abstract

The concept of reuse in process models is extensively studied in the literature. Sub-processes, process templates, process variants, and process reference models are employed as reusable elements for process modeling. Additionally, the notion of process fragments has been introduced to capture parts of a process model and store them for later reuse. In contrast, concepts for reuse of processes that cross the boundaries of organizations, i.e., choreographies, have not yet been studied in the appropriate level of detail. In this paper, we introduce the concept of choreography fragments as reusable elements for choreography modeling. Choreography fragments can be extracted from choreography models, adapted, stored, and inserted into new models. We provide a formal model for choreography fragments and identify a set of patterns constituting frequently occurring meaningful choreography fragments.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Weiß A., Andrikopoulos V., Hahn M. and Karastoyanova D. (2015). Fostering Reuse in Choreography Modeling Through Choreography Fragments . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-097-0, pages 28-36. DOI: 10.5220/0005342000280036

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis15,
author={Andreas Weiß and Vasilios Andrikopoulos and Michael Hahn and Dimka Karastoyanova},
title={Fostering Reuse in Choreography Modeling Through Choreography Fragments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={28-36},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005342000280036},
isbn={978-989-758-097-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Fostering Reuse in Choreography Modeling Through Choreography Fragments
SN - 978-989-758-097-0
AU - Weiß A.
AU - Andrikopoulos V.
AU - Hahn M.
AU - Karastoyanova D.
PY - 2015
SP - 28
EP - 36
DO - 10.5220/0005342000280036