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UN/CEFACT’S Modeling Methodology (UMM): A UML Profile for B2B e-Commerce

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The United Nation’s Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) is an e-business standardization body. It is known from its work on UN/EDIFACT and ebXML. One of its on-going work items is the UN/CEFACT modeling methodology (UMM) for modeling global choreographies of B2B scenarios. The goal of UMM is defining a shared business logic between business partners and fostering reuse of standardized process building blocks. The latest UMM version is defined as a UML 1.4 profile. In this paper we introduce the main concepts of UMM to realize its vision. Furthermore, the paper elaborates on the necessary UML meta model work-arounds we – as part of the specification’s editing team – took in order to accomplish the B2B requirements. Then we propose a move towards UML 2 that eliminates some of those workarounds.

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  • Business Partner
  • Business Transaction
  • Business Process Execution Language
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  1. University of Vienna,  

    B. Hofreiter & C. Huemer

  2. Research Studios Austria DME,  

    P. Liegl & R. Schuster

  3. Vienna University of Technology,  

    C. Huemer & M. Zapletal

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  1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

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  2. iSOCO, Spain

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  3. CEDRIC-CNAM, France

    Samira Si-said Cherfi

  4. University of Cincinnati, USA

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  5. Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France

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  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

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  7. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy

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  9. E-Business and Web Science Research Group, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany

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Hofreiter, B., Huemer, C., Liegl, P., Schuster, R., Zapletal, M. (2006). UN/CEFACT’S Modeling Methodology (UMM): A UML Profile for B2B e-Commerce. In: , et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice. ER 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908883_5

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