Paper Info
Title
Towards variability management in business document types using product line engineering
Abstract
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is based on the standardization of business document types. Usually, a standard business document type is defined in an all-embracing manner covering all elements needed in any business context, such as geopolitical context, industry context, and others. Before exchanging business documents in a particular business context, business partners have to agree on an implementation guide resulting in a subset of the standard document type. Different subsets of a standard document type may also be considered as variants of the standard document type. Since no agreed methodology for building variants of standard documents types exists, the domain of EDI may learn from Software Engineering. In fact, we are facing the need for managing variants which is typically addressed in Software Configuration Management. In this position paper, we propose utilizing concepts from Product Line Engineering (PLE) for managing variability in business document models. Therefore, we present the challenges encountered in managing variability in business documents. Furthermore, we provide a profound discussion why concepts from PLE are promising for managing business document variants.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2031759.2031769
ECSA Companion Volume
Keywords
Field
DocType
standard documents type,business document variant,business partner,standard document type,towards variability management,particular business context,business document model,business context,product line engineering,business document,business document type,standard business document type,software engineering,electronic data interchange,software configuration management
Artifact-centric business process model,Systems engineering,Computer science,Document engineering,Knowledge management,Business requirements,Business domain,Business process modeling,Vision document,Business Process Model and Notation,Business rule
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Pichler16713.20
Christian Huemer235371.56