@conference { ISI:000389806000017, title = {Knowledge Management Performance Measurement: A Generic Framework}, booktitle = {DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, DB\&IS 2016}, series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science}, volume = {615}, year = {2016}, note = {12th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (DB and IS), Riga, LATVIA, JUL 04-06, 2016}, pages = {242-254}, publisher = {Univ Latvia, Fac Comp; Exigen Serv Latvia; IEEE; Springer}, organization = {Univ Latvia, Fac Comp; Exigen Serv Latvia; IEEE; Springer}, abstract = {This theoretical article aims to propose a generic framework for measuring performance of Knowledge Management (KM) projects based on critical literature review. The proposed framework fills the existing gap on KM performance measurement in two points: (i) it provides a generic tool that is able to assess all kinds of KM project as well as the overall organization KM, (ii) it assesses KM projects according to KM objectives in a generic manner. Our framework (GKMPM) relies on a process reference model that provides a KM common understanding in a process based view. It is based on a goal-oriented measurement approach and considers that KM performance dimensions are stakeholder{\textquoteright}s objectives. The framework application follows a procedural approach that begins with the KM project modelling, followed by the objectives prioritization. The next step consists of collecting and analysing data for pre-designed measures, and produces a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) related to the KM project processes and in accordance with its objectives.}, isbn = {978-3-319-40180-5; 978-3-319-40179-9}, issn = {1865-0929}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-40180-5\_17}, author = {Oufkir, Latifa and Fredj, Mounia and Kassou, Ismail}, editor = {Arnicans, G and Arnicane, V and Borzovs, J and Niedrite, L} } @conference { ISI:000381172301090, title = {Towards A Reference Model for Knowledge Management Performance Measurement}, booktitle = {INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION EXCELLENCE VISION 2020: FROM REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABILITY TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH, VOLS I - VI}, year = {2016}, note = {27th International Business Information Management Association Conference, Milan, ITALY, MAY 04-05, 2016}, pages = {2744-2755}, abstract = {Knowledge Management (KM) projects are socio-technical systems that enable knowledge activities and ensure that the right knowledge gets to the right person at the right time. The growing number of KM applications confirms the need for a performance measurement model able to assess the diversity of KM initiatives in order to rationalize their usage. To the best of our knowledge, a generic KM model for performance measurement fitting any kind of KM projects is missing in the literature. Instead, existing approaches are specific to a particular KM project or assess the overall KM of the organization. In this paper, we propose a KM model for performance measurement that is built on existing KM models literature and enhanced with theoretical findings. It also follows the reference modelling design process in view of producing a high quality model.}, isbn = {978-0-9860419-6-9}, author = {Oufkir, Latifa and Fredj, Mounia and Kassou, Ismail}, editor = {Soliman, KS} } @article { ISI:000391111200027, title = {Variability Management in Business-IT Alignment: MDA based Approach}, journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS}, volume = {7}, number = {11}, year = {2016}, month = {NOV}, pages = {212-221}, abstract = {The expansion of PAIS (Process Aware Information Systems) has created the need for reuse in business processes. In fact, companies are left with directories containing several variants of the same business processes, which differ according to their application context. Consequently, the development of PAIS has become increasingly expensive. Therefore, research in business process management domain introduced the concept of configurable process, with the aim of managing the variability of business process. However, with the emergence of the services-based development paradigm, the alignment of services with business processes is highly required in PAIS. Thus, in this paper an MDA based method which allows for generating configurable services from configurable process is proposed.}, issn = {2158-107X}, author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia} } @conference { ISI:000380409500062, title = {Configurable process models : a semantic validation}, booktitle = {2015 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)}, year = {2015}, note = {10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), ENSIAS, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 20-21, 2015}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, abstract = {Nowadays, variability management has been introduced in the field of business process modeling by means of the configurable process models solution, with a view to resolving problems of redundancy and design time errors. Nevertheless, the existing approaches of variability modeling lack of semantic representation, and consequently, present many limits regarding automation of modeling, configuring and evolving configurable processes. Recently, semantic web technologies, especially ontologies, have been proposed in order to increase the level of automation and reduce human intervention in different domains. Business process management has benefited from the emergence of these technologies and the concept of semantic business process management appeared to make the whole business process accessible to intelligent queries as for machine reasoning. Whereas most approaches focus on providing mechanisms for modeling and configuring process models, their validation was treated syntactically rather than semantically. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based approach to enhance configurable processes validation using ontologies.}, isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7}, author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia} } @conference { ISI:000371484600008, title = {Integrating Linked Sensor Data for On-line Analytical Processing On-The-Fly}, booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)}, series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology}, year = {2014}, note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014}, pages = {43-47}, publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan}, organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan}, abstract = {Sensor networks are gaining more and more attention in the current technology landscape. It is undeniable that their use allows a better monitoring of events that occur in the real world. Many sensors have been deployed for monitoring applications such as environmental monitoring, and traffic monitoring. A number of governments, corporates, and academic organizations or agencies hold independently sensor systems that generate a large amount of dynamic information from data sources with various formats of schemas and data. They are making this sensor data openly accessible by publishing it as Linked Sensor Data (LSD) on the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. LSD is the concept that defines the publication of public or private organization sensor data without restrictions. This is achieved by transforming raw sensor observations to RDF format and by linking it with other datasets on the LOD cloud. The seamless integration of LSD sources from multiple providers is a great challenge. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of integrating diverse LSD sources using the hybrid ontology approach for on-line analytical processing (OLAP) on-the-fly. With such an ontology-based integration framework, organizations or individuals will have greater opportunity to make their respective analysis based on a large amount of sensor data openly accessible on the Web.}, isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2}, issn = {2327-185X}, author = {Guilavogui, Koly and Kjiri, Laila and Fredj, Mounia}, editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M} } @conference { ISI:000380387700057, title = {On managing evolution of configurable services based on configurable processes}, booktitle = {2014 SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (WCCS)}, year = {2014}, note = {2014 Second World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 10-12, 2014}, pages = {616-621}, publisher = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS}, organization = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS}, abstract = {Today, SOA is the most dominant and broadly adopted architecture style by enterprises. It defines how to use services to achieve business goals, and allows interoperability with multiple customers within different business domains. The growing use of SOA has increased research interest on how to improve the reuse of services. Hence, managing services variability was introduced by many approaches as a new leading edge concept for improving reuse. Indeed, variability refers to the characteristic of a system to adapt, specialize and configure itself with the context of use. Several proposals have been made in this respect. However, none of these seem to deal with the evolution of these configurable services. In service oriented systems, the evolution of services is usually introduced by the evolution of the associated business process. Therefore, if a configurable process model (CPM for short) should evolve in reaction to changing business needs, the associated configurable services (CS for short) are also impacted by this change. In our previous work, we proposed a complete methodology for managing evolution in configurable process models. In this paper, we extend our proposed approach to develop an evolution process for managing the changes of configurable services (variable services) caused by changing the associated configurable process model.}, isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1}, author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Chakir, Boutaina and Kjiri, Laila} } @conference { ISI:000380428300019, title = {Semantic Variability Modeling in Business Processes: A Comparative Study}, booktitle = {2014 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR INTERNET TECHNOLOGY AND SECURED TRANSACTIONS (ICITST)}, year = {2014}, note = {International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions{*}, London, ENGLAND, DEC 08-10, 2014}, pages = {131-136}, abstract = {Business Process Management (BPM) is an approach that aligns information systems (IT view) with business processes (Business view). Both the dynamic environment of business and the fast changes in requirements have created the need to reuse business processes in order to gain in cost and time. To enhance reuse in BPM, significant research efforts have been made on the development of methods and languages in order to support variability modeling. However, there is no single standard for modeling variability in configurable process models. Each modeling language integrating variability proposes its own method for representing variability, and different representations are used to express the same variability concepts. In addition to that, human intervention is still mandatory in order to create, configure and evolve configurable process models. With semantic annotations and the usage of ontology, these tasks could be automated. In this paper, we propose a comparative study to assess variability modeling approaches in software engineering domains, which include software product line engineering, services engineering and process engineering. This comparative study is conducted in terms of semantics use.}, isbn = {978-1-908320-39-1}, author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia} } @conference { ISI:000366999600190, title = {Support for resources changes in configurable process models}, booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS (ICMCS)}, year = {2014}, note = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), Marrakech, MOROCCO, APR 14-16, 2014}, pages = {1082-1087}, abstract = {Today, researches on business process models reuse are interested in configurable process modeling which is an important approach for reusing and customizing business process models with a set of process variants. However, enterprises are involved in a competitive environment which imposes them to often evolve their configurable process models in terms of activity, data and resource. So, creating configurable process models becomes insufficient since the configurable process models should evolve to meet new needs. To address this issue, we propose a reusable process patterns system for guiding designers in managing changes and evolution of configurable process models. In this paper, we focus on how to manage resources changes. We present one pattern of our proposed system, the variation point resource insertion process pattern.}, isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7}, author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Kjiri, Laila} } @conference { ISI:000371484600001, title = {Towards a semantic enrichment of configurable process models}, booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)}, series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology}, year = {2014}, note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014}, pages = {1-6}, publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan}, organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan}, abstract = {In recent years, the concept of Semantic business process management has attracted significant research work, with the emergence of semantic web technologies (SW), which aimed to describe resources in a formal representation with clearly defined semantics in order to be machine-readable. Enriching business process with semantics improves the representation of processes and permits the automation of different tasks such as modeling, configuration, evolution, and promotes more flexible and adaptive solutions according to business requirement changes. Nowadays, the key concept of reuse in Business Process Management is the Configurable Process Model (CPM) solution which is an important approach for reusing and customizing business process models with a set of process variants. However, existing approaches in CPM lack of semantic representation. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based approach for enriching Configurable Process Models with semantics, as a first step towards the enhancement of the CPM evolution process.}, isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2}, issn = {2327-185X}, author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia}, editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M} } @conference { ISI:000350287800033, title = {Linking Knowledge Management Valuation to Intellectual Capital: a conceptual study}, booktitle = {2013 3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ISKO-MAGHREB}, year = {2013}, note = {ISKO-Maghreb 3rd International Symposium, Marrakech, MOROCCO, NOV 08-09, 2013}, publisher = {ISKO}, organization = {ISKO}, abstract = {Knowledge management (KM) and intellectual capital (IC) are two big research questions in nowadays management topics. In fact, the relation between these two subjects varies from analogy to complementarity. Defining these concepts remains for long years a controversy, because both topics imply different disciplines. And despite the multidisciplinary of the field, it is agreed that KM treats both knowledge as an object, and management as a set of tools and techniques. The association between these two aspects is the essence of KM. Whereas with the IC, the focus is much on the effect and value generated by the intellectual asset, which implies a notion of valuation and measurement. The relationship between concepts of IC and KM needs to be redefined in view of field progress. In our paper, we assume that {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}IC is suited to KM valuation and performance measurement{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}: a conceptual review of the literature within this work should give foundation to this hypothesis. Further foreseen analytical verification may empower it to be a basic rule on the design of future KM valuation indicators.}, isbn = {978-1-4799-3392-1}, author = {Oufkir, Latifa and Fredj, Mounia and Kassou, Ismail} } @article {10115338720131101, title = {SV3R: un framework pour la gestion de la variabilit{\'e} des services.}, journal = {E-Ti: E-Review in Technologies Information}, number = {7}, year = {2013}, pages = {20 - 31}, abstract = {The emergence and expansion of the development paradigm based on service oriented approaches have been behind the elaboration of new models and methods that aim at facilitating the reuse of services within multiples context of use. This requires providing systematically services with several possible realizations. Among the promising approaches that achieve this objective is the management of variability which has been widely adopted by the software engineering disciplines and whose objective is to facilitate the adaptation or the configuration of software artifacts in a systematic way. Hence, in this work we provide a framework for the development (for and by reuse) of services supporting variability, called {\guillemotleft}SV3R{\guillemotright} (Service Variability Representation and Resolution for Reuse). This paper introduces at first the concept of variability. Afterwards, it presents some related work, before giving an overview of the framework SV3R and describing its components. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTH}, keywords = {Gestion de la variabilit{\'e}, Ing{\'e}nierie des mod{\`e}les, Model engineering, Reuse, R{\'e}utilisation, SOA, Variability management, Web services}, issn = {11148802}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=101153387\&site=ehost-live}, author = {Chakir, Boutaina and Fredj, Mounia} } @conference { ISI:000341079600060, title = {To trace and guide evolution in configurable process models}, booktitle = {2013 ACS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (AICCSA)}, year = {2013}, note = {IEEE and Arab-Computing-Society (ACS) International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Al Akhawayn Univ, Ifrane, MOROCCO, MAY 27-30, 2013}, publisher = {IEEE; Arab Comp Soc}, organization = {IEEE; Arab Comp Soc}, abstract = {Today, research on business process management (BPM) outlines the importance of business process reuse through reference process models which are interested in capturing common practices of organizations. Consequently, reusing these reference process models stresses the necessity of managing a set of process variants. In this context, configurable process model solutions have been developed to facilitate customization of business process in a specific scenario. However, configurable process model should evolve in order to meet new business requirements. To address this issue, we propose a process patterns based approach for leading configurable process model evolution. For supporting traceability of the transition from a given version of a configurable process model to another, an evolution metamodel has been defined. In this paper, we present i) only one pattern of our proposed patterns system, the Activity substitution process pattern, and ii) a proposition of the evolution metamodel.}, isbn = {978-1-4799-0792-2}, author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Kjiri, Laila} } @conference { ISI:000386615500047, title = {Towards a Process Patterns based Approach for Promoting Adaptability in Configurable Process Models}, booktitle = {ICEIS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - VOL 3}, year = {2013}, note = {15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Angers, FRANCE, JUL 04-07, 2013}, pages = {382-387}, publisher = {ESEO Grp; Inst Syst \& Technologies Informat, Control \& Commun; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence; IEICE Special Interest Grp Software Interprise Modelling; ACM Special Interest Grp Management Informat Syst; ACM Special Interest Grp Comp Human Inte}, organization = {ESEO Grp; Inst Syst \& Technologies Informat, Control \& Commun; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence; IEICE Special Interest Grp Software Interprise Modelling; ACM Special Interest Grp Management Informat Syst; ACM Special Interest Grp Comp Human Inte}, abstract = {Reference process modeling approach has been proposed in order to provide a generic solution for reuse in business process management. These models are intended to be adapted by different organizations to respond to new requirements. As a result of this adaptation, a set of variants of the reference process model must be managed. In this context, configurable solutions have been developed to manage variability by integrating all possible configurations. However, enterprises are involved in competitive and complex environments which impose them to often adapt their configurable process models to deal with the increasing globalisation. Therefore, configurable process models should evolve over time in terms of activities, resources and data to meet new needs. In this paper, we propose a process patterns based approach to guide designers in evolving configurable process models at design time as a first step of our contribution to provide an automated support for evolving configurable process models. The presentation of our process patterns system is limited in this paper to the Activity Insertion Process Pattern.}, isbn = {978-989-8565-61-7}, doi = {10.5220/0004565503820387}, author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Kjiri, Laila}, editor = {Hammoudi, S and Maciaszek, L and Cordeiro, J and Dietz, J} } @conference { ISI:000310353000131, title = {Promoting reuse in web services by managing variability}, booktitle = {2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS (ICMCS)}, year = {2012}, note = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), Tangiers, MOROCCO, MAY 10-12, 2012}, pages = {712-717}, publisher = {Morocco Sect MTT/AP Joint Chapter}, organization = {Morocco Sect MTT/AP Joint Chapter}, abstract = {Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) refers to an architectural paradigm that describes how organizations, people and systems provide and use services to achieve their goals. Moreover, with the evolution of SOA, the focus in software development has shifted from applications to reusable services. Besides, reuse in SOA has more focused on service composition rather than reuse of existing implementations to build new services with additional functionalities. The preferred way to realize SOA remains web services which explain our interest in promoting reuse of Web services by managing variability. In this paper, we propose a model driven method for managing Web service{\textquoteright}s variability based on MDA (Model Driven Architecture). In fact, through MDA, the method enables the automation of Web service{\textquoteright}s realization regardless of the supported platforms. Moreover, we present a WSDL extension meta-model called VarWSDL which enhances Web services by variability notions. That permits Web services reuse.}, isbn = {978-1-4673-1520-3}, author = {Chakir, Boutaina and Fredj, Mounia and Nassar, Mahmoud}, editor = {Essaaidi, M and Zaz, Y} } @conference { ISI:000298749600093, title = {Metamodels for models complete integration}, booktitle = {2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION REUSE AND INTEGRATION (IRI)}, year = {2011}, note = {12th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)/1st International Workshop on Issues and Challenges in Social Computing (WICSOC), Las Vegas, NV, AUG 03-05, 2011}, pages = {496-499}, publisher = {IEEE Syst, Man \& Cybernet Soc (IEEE SMC); Soc Informat Reuse \& Integrat (SIRI); IEEE}, organization = {IEEE Syst, Man \& Cybernet Soc (IEEE SMC); Soc Informat Reuse \& Integrat (SIRI); IEEE}, abstract = {Problems occur in the models integration and particularly, in the comparison phase of the integration. Previous approaches have not correctly handled the semantic integration. We propose a complete approach for integrating of UML models. First, we provide a comparison approach incorporating syntactic, structural and semantic aspects in order to detect any correspondence between the models to compare, and secondly, a semantic approach to integrate the compared models. For this purpose, we use domain ontology. In this paper, our contribution is the proposition of the different metamodels needed in the comparison and the integration phases.}, isbn = {978-1-4577-0966-1}, author = {Benabdellah Chaouni, Samia and Fredj, Mounia and Mouline, Salma}, editor = {Alhajj, R and Joshi, J and Shyu, ML} } @conference { ISI:000371495900004, title = {A process pattern for managing evolution of configurable reference process models}, booktitle = {2012 COLLOQUIUM ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}12)}, series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology}, year = {2011}, note = {IEEE Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Fez, MOROCCO, OCT 22-24, 2012}, pages = {22-25}, publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; USMBA IEEE Student Branch; Faculty of Sciences Dhar Mahraz; Faculty of Technical Sciences of Fez; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc}, organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; USMBA IEEE Student Branch; Faculty of Sciences Dhar Mahraz; Faculty of Technical Sciences of Fez; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc}, abstract = {During the last years, reference process modeling becomes an efficient approach for reuse in business process modeling (BPM). Many BPM tools provide mechanisms to adapt reference process models in order to meet new needs. However, this adaptation results in a set of variants which have to be managed. One of the most proposed solutions is the configurable process model. Therefore, evolving this configurable process model in terms of activities, a data flows and resources changes becomes a crucial issue. In this paper, we propose a process pattern which guides designers for managing evolution of configurable reference process models.}, isbn = {978-1-4673-2725-1}, issn = {2327-185X}, author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Kjiri, Laila}, editor = {ElMohajir, M and Begdouri, A and ElMohajir, BE and Zarghili, A} } @conference { ISI:000261359800058, title = {Variability Modeling for Business Component Customization}, booktitle = {2008 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS, VOLS 1-3}, series = {IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC}, year = {2008}, note = {13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Marrakech, MOROCCO, JUL 06-09, 2008}, pages = {370+}, publisher = {IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc; hps; Ctr Natl Rech Sci \& Tech}, organization = {IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc; hps; Ctr Natl Rech Sci \& Tech}, abstract = {Since a component-based information system has different requirements, components customization for various constraints is needed. Thus, the ability of reusable components to be varied and appropriate to different information systems requirements is a key property in reusable component development, especially in Business Component (BC) development. In this paper, a BC customization approach is presented. In order to do this, we focus on the variability concept, which is defined as the ability of a software artefact to be changed or customized to be reused in multiple contexts. Hence, the objective of this work is to specify business components with the consideration of commonality and variability in a business domain, in order to increase their reusability and applicability.}, isbn = {978-1-4244-2702-4}, issn = {1530-1346}, author = {Saidi, Rajaa and Fredj, Mounia and Mouline, Salma and Front, Agnes and Rieu, Dominique} } @conference { ISI:000250559700098, title = {Towards managing variability across business component development}, booktitle = {IRI 2007: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION REUSE AND INTEGRATION}, year = {2007}, note = {IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2007), Las Vegas, NV, AUG 13-15, 2007}, pages = {594+}, publisher = {IEEE; SMC Soc}, organization = {IEEE; SMC Soc}, abstract = {Reusing components, which are specifically set up to suit enterprises requirements, becomes a key element of their software engineering strategy. Consequently, the ability of reusable components to be varied and appropriate to different re-users requirements is a key property in reusable component development. From this need, the concept of variability has emerged. It is defined as the ability of a software artefact to be changed or customized to be used in multiple contexts. The objective of our research is to outline variability issues through reusable component development, and in particular, in the requirements phase of a Business Component (BC) development. The main ideas of this research are (a) to address variability issues through the requirements phase of a BC development and (b) to propose a metamodel to describe variability concepts that must be classified and designed to manage this variability.}, isbn = {978-1-4244-1499-4}, doi = {10.1109/IRI.2007.4296685}, author = {Saidil, Rajaa and Fredj, Mounia and Mouline, Salma and Front, Agnes and Rieu, Dominique}, editor = {Chang, W and Joshi, JBD} }