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Title:
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DESIGNING SOUND E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES BY MODELLING & INTERACTIVE PROCESS ANIMATION |
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Author(s):
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Michael Schmitt , Christophe Incoul , Patrick Blandin , Eric Dubois |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-06-2 |
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Editors:
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Nitya Karmakar and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2005 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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UML, business process simulation, E-GOV transactions, e-Business. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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67 |
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Last Page:
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74 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The paper presents a methodology and a toolset to design and validate electronic business transactions in the context of public administrations. The toolset makes use of a subset of formally defined UML, enriched by the notion of 1st order logic business rules, to model and simulate end-to-end transactions in a interactive way. It is argued that the soundness and the appropriateness of electronic transactions can be improved by allowing the future users themselves as opposed to the IT analysts involved in the modeling of the transaction - to validate the correctness of the transaction flow and the messages exchanged before they are implemented. To achieve this objective, the UML models are transformed into a workflow-based transaction simulation, or animation, that the future users can use to validate their correctness. This a-priori validation step helps to improve the quality of the future services and enhances their acceptance level, as well as it helps to speed up the development time and reduces cost. The business case of this paper is based on work results of the EU project IDA. |
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