An MDA Approach for Process-Based Collaborative Systems Development

Since some years ago, an increased competition forces organizations to concentrate on core competencies and to collaborate closely with other organizations. The paper proposes a model-driven approach to design collaborative systems. This approach focuses on the collaborative business process modelling and the generation of the partner’s private process models. To do so, we propose a framework with three layers: an organizational layer, that focuses on collaborative business, a conceptual layer, to define the business process, and a technology layer, aimed at process execution. To this aim, inter-organizational interactions (information exchanges) are modelled based on business processes and Web services. Finally, we validate our proposition with implementation of an e-ordering system.