Two case studies on generating administrative process applications with AdminDSL

Antonio García-Domínguez; Ismael Jerez-Ibáñez; Inmaculada Medina-Bulo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40512-4_6

Two case studies on generating administrative process applications with AdminDSL

Antonio García-Domínguez^*, Ismael Jerez-Ibáñez, Inmaculada Medina-Bulo

^*Corresponding author for this work

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Abstract

Some organizations end up reimplementing the same class of business process over and over: an "administrative process", which consists of managing a form through several states and involving various roles in the organization. This results in wasted time that could be dedicated to better understanding the process or dealing with the fine details that are specific to the process. Existing virtual office solutions require specific training and infrastructure andmay result in vendor lock-in. In this paper, we propose using a high-level domain-specific language (AdminDSL) to describe the administrative process and a separate code generator targeting a standard web framework. We have implemented the approach using Xtext, EGL and the Django web framework, and we illustrate it through two case studies: a synthetic examination process which illustrates the architecture of the generated code, and a real-world workplace survey process that identified several future avenues for improvement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Business Modeling and Software Design
Subtitle of host publication	5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised selected papers
Editors	Boris Shishkov
Place of Publication	Cham (CH)
Publisher	Springer
Pages	96-116
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-40512-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-40511-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40512-4_6
Publication status	Published - 14 Jun 2016
Event	5th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Milan, Italy Duration: 6 Jul 2015 → 8 Jul 2015

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Publisher	Springer
Volume	257
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348

Symposium

Symposium	5th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design
Abbreviated title	BMSD 2015
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	6/07/15 → 8/07/15

Keywords

business modeling
code generation
domain-specific languages
model-driven engineering

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García-Domínguez, A., Jerez-Ibáñez, I., & Medina-Bulo, I. (2016). Two case studies on generating administrative process applications with AdminDSL. In B. Shishkov (Ed.), Business Modeling and Software Design: 5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised selected papers (pp. 96-116). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 257). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40512-4_6

García-Domínguez, Antonio ; Jerez-Ibáñez, Ismael ; Medina-Bulo, Inmaculada. / Two case studies on generating administrative process applications with AdminDSL. Business Modeling and Software Design: 5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised selected papers. editor / Boris Shishkov. Cham (CH) : Springer, 2016. pp. 96-116 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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Two case studies on generating administrative process applications with AdminDSL. / García-Domínguez, Antonio; Jerez-Ibáñez, Ismael; Medina-Bulo, Inmaculada.
Business Modeling and Software Design: 5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised selected papers. ed. / Boris Shishkov. Cham (CH): Springer, 2016. p. 96-116 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 257).

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