B2BISS

It's been a while since our last post...

We've been working hard on all three projects and we've made quite good advances on them.

First, let's talk about the JXML2OWL. From now on it will be called B2BISS (Business 2 Business Integration Using Semantic-to-Semantic Mappings ).

We've been designing the interface and started programming it. Bellow you can see some simple screenshots of the interface.

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We've also created the XMLSender – a simple tool that sends the xml files to be received by the B2BISS.

You can see a screenshot here.

And the download can be done from here.

Relatively to the business process metrics, we have some news. First, we won't be implementing them for BPEL and YAWL because the ProM framework does not have an API for those languages and therefore we cannot manipulate the structures in order to calculate the complexity. So, we'll search for other languages that have a suitable API and implement the metrics for one or two of them.

Apart from that, we have a new metric – Coupling – and we've already implemented it for EPCs and Petri Nets. At this point we have 4 metrics – Size, Control Flow, Density and Coupling – implemented for both EPCS and Petri Nets. We are waiting for a fifth metric called Modularity which might arrive in 2 or 3 months.

You can see some screenshots of the plugins here: EPC PetriNets

Concerning to the DTIM project, it is behind schedule which are good news. This week we delivered the Requirements Specification and started working on the Architecture. After that we have Design, Coding and Testing.