Mediation Information System Design in a Collaborative SOA Context through a MDD Approach

This article presents a model-driven approach to improve interoperability of enterprises information systems. This approach proposes to design a mediation information system (MIS) dedicated to deal with exchanged data, shared services and collaborative processes. The MIS design crosses the different abstraction layers (business, logic and technological) and exploits at each level the associated models to build the models of the next level. Actually, industrial collaboration is characterized (using an ontology) to deduce the associated collaborative process, as the Computer Independent Model (CIM) of Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Then, extracting and transforming the knowledge provided by this model of collaborative process, the logical architecture of the MIS is designed, as the Platform Independent Model of MDA. Finally, this article presents perspectives concerning first, the transformation of the logical architecture into the configuration files of the physical architecture (the Platform Specific Model of MDA) and second, the aspects of agility of such a MIS.