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Collaboration Viewpoint for Modeling Cross-Organizational Business Concerns

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Abstract

Organizations very often need to collaborate to achieve their business goals. Hereby it is important that the collaboration concerns are properly identified and reflected in their businesses. In practice, the business process design and architecture design are often carried out separately. This often leads to a misalignment between the business process and architecture design, a problem which becomes more severe when multiple collaborating organizations are involved. To address this problem, it is important to provide the proper design abstractions that can be used to detect and correct misalignments. To this end, we propose the architecture collaboration viewpoint that can be used by teams of business analysts and software architects when addressing business collaboration concerns. The collaboration viewpoint uses elements from business process and architecture viewpoints to provide new modeling artifacts for alignment. The design artefacts are mapping tables and workflow pattern diagrams that are used to identify misalignments and redesign the business processes. The viewpoint facilitates the communication between business analysts and architects. We illustrate the collaboration viewpoint for a food supply chain transparency system from a real industrial case study.

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  1. Information Technology Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Ayalew Kassahun & Bedir Tekinerdogan

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  1. Edifici Ampliación del Rectorado, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

    Enrique Cabello

  2. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Jorge Cardoso

  3. Kühne Logistics University – KLU, Hamburg, Germany

    André Ludwig

  4. Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland

    Leszek A. Maciaszek

  5. Information Systems Group, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Marten van Sinderen

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Kassahun, A., Tekinerdogan, B. (2017). Collaboration Viewpoint for Modeling Cross-Organizational Business Concerns. In: Cabello, E., Cardoso, J., Ludwig, A., Maciaszek, L., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 743. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62569-0_1

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