A service-oriented architecture design of decision-aware Information Systems: Decision as a service

Faruk Hasic; Johannes De Smedt; Jan Vanthienen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69462-7_23

A service-oriented architecture design of decision-aware Information Systems: Decision as a service

Faruk Hasic, Johannes De Smedt, Jan Vanthienen

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Separating the decision modelling concern from the processes modelling concern has gained significant support in literature over the past few years, as incorporating both concerns into a single model has shown to impair the scalability, maintainability, flexibility and understandability of both processes and decisions. Most notably the introduction of the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard by the Object Management Group has provided a suitable solution for externalising decisions from processes. This paper introduces a systematic way of tackling the separation of the decision modelling concern from process modelling by providing a Decision as a Service (DaaS) layered Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which approaches decisions as externalised services that processes need to invoke on demand in order to obtain the decision outcome. Additionally, the benefits of the DaaS design on process-decision modelling are discussed in terms of scalability, maintainability, flexibility and understandability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
Subtitle of host publication	OTM 2017 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, CTC, and ODBASE 2017, Rhodes, Greece, October 23-27, 2017, Proceedings
Editors	Hervé Panetto, Christophe Debruyne, Walid Gaaloul, Mike Papazoglou, Adrian Paschke, Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Robert Meersman
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	353-361
Number of pages	9
Volume	Part I
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319694627
ISBN (Print)	9783319694610
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69462-7_23
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 20 Oct 2017

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	10573
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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decision modelling
DMN
process modelling
integrated modelling
separation of concerns
service-oriented architecture

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Hasic, F., De Smedt, J., & Vanthienen, J. (2017). A service-oriented architecture design of decision-aware Information Systems: Decision as a service. In H. Panetto, C. Debruyne, W. Gaaloul, M. Papazoglou, A. Paschke, C. A. Ardagna, & R. Meersman (Eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2017 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, CTC, and ODBASE 2017, Rhodes, Greece, October 23-27, 2017, Proceedings (Vol. Part I, pp. 353-361). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Vol. 10573). Springer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69462-7_23

Hasic, Faruk ; De Smedt, Johannes ; Vanthienen, Jan. / A service-oriented architecture design of decision-aware Information Systems : Decision as a service. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2017 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, CTC, and ODBASE 2017, Rhodes, Greece, October 23-27, 2017, Proceedings. editor / Hervé Panetto ; Christophe Debruyne ; Walid Gaaloul ; Mike Papazoglou ; Adrian Paschke ; Claudio Agostino Ardagna ; Robert Meersman. Vol. Part I Cham : Springer, 2017. pp. 353-361 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ).

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Hasic, F, De Smedt, J & Vanthienen, J 2017, A service-oriented architecture design of decision-aware Information Systems: Decision as a service. in H Panetto, C Debruyne, W Gaaloul, M Papazoglou, A Paschke, CA Ardagna & R Meersman (eds), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2017 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, CTC, and ODBASE 2017, Rhodes, Greece, October 23-27, 2017, Proceedings. vol. Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , vol. 10573, Springer, Cham, pp. 353-361. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69462-7_23

A service-oriented architecture design of decision-aware Information Systems: Decision as a service. / Hasic, Faruk; De Smedt, Johannes; Vanthienen, Jan.
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2017 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, CTC, and ODBASE 2017, Rhodes, Greece, October 23-27, 2017, Proceedings. ed. / Hervé Panetto; Christophe Debruyne; Walid Gaaloul; Mike Papazoglou; Adrian Paschke; Claudio Agostino Ardagna; Robert Meersman. Vol. Part I Cham: Springer, 2017. p. 353-361 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Vol. 10573).

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Hasic F, De Smedt J, Vanthienen J. A service-oriented architecture design of decision-aware Information Systems: Decision as a service. In Panetto H, Debruyne C, Gaaloul W, Papazoglou M, Paschke A, Ardagna CA, Meersman R, editors, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2017 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, CTC, and ODBASE 2017, Rhodes, Greece, October 23-27, 2017, Proceedings. Vol. Part I. Cham: Springer. 2017. p. 353-361. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ). Epub 2017 Oct 20. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69462-7_23

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