Semantic enrichment process: An approach to software component reuse in modernizing enterprise systems |
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Authors: | Noyan Ilk J Leon Zhao Paulo Goes Paul Hofmann |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Management Information Systems, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA;(2) Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong;(3) SAP Research Americas and China, SAP Labs LLC, Palo Alto, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | In today’s dynamic business environments, organizations are under pressure to modernize their existing software systems in
order to respond to changing business demands. Service oriented architectures provide a composition framework to create new
business functionalities from autonomous building blocks called services, enabling organizations to quickly adapt to changing
conditions and requirements. Characteristics of services offer the promise of leveraging the value of enterprise systems through
source code reuse. In this respect, existing system components can be used as the foundation of newly created services. However, one problem
to overcome is the lack of business semantics to support the reuse of existing source code. Without sufficient semantic knowledge
about the code in the context of business functionality, it would be impossible to utilize source code components in services
development. In this paper, we present an automated approach to enrich source code components with business semantics. Our
approach is based on the idea that the gap between the two ends of an enterprise system—(1) services as processes and (2)
source code—can be bridged via similarity of data definitions used in both ends. We evaluate our approach in the framework
of a commercial enterprise systems application. Initial results indicate that the proposed approach is useful for annotating
source code components with business specific knowledge. |
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