Document Engineering: analyzing and designing the semantics of Business Service Networks

  • Authors:
  • Robert J. Glushko;Tim McGrath

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California Berkeley;Universal Business Language

  • Venue:
  • BSN '05 Proceedings of the IEEE EEE05 international workshop on Business services networks
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Behind the idea of Business Services Networks lies the very simple and natural idea of document exchange. But when they are implemented without disciplined semantics, the input and output documents of business processes often partition their information in incompatible ways, severely constraining the loosely coupled, "plug and play" interoperability that is the defining vision of business service networks.This paper introduces the new discipline of Document Engineering, a set of analysis and design techniques that yield meaningful and reusable models of the information exchanges within and between enterprises.Document Engineering relies on the skills and tools of business process, document, data, and task analysis. One of the innovations of Document Engineering is to exploit these different techniques for reaching the same goalAs a result, with business services developed using Document Engineering techniques the semantics are precise, based on patterns to make them reusable, and support a complete and unambiguous relationship between the model and the schemas and software that implements it.