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3.1
Business Process Description
The customer will introduce its functional and non-functional requirements with an
assistant agent for the construction of the business process. The assistant agent guide
the customer in constructing a list of components that is presented in figure 2. The
result of this step is a set of interconnecting components, which represents a business
process and the customer needs. Every component has the informations, which are
represented in the following tables:
Table 1.
Representation of functional requirements
Functional
Requirements
Description
Name
Component name
Inputs
A set of inputs of component.
Ports
Outputs
A set of outputs of component.
Field
User selects one of the existing fields.
Precondition
A precondition for correct execution of the component.
Relations
The relationship between the components.
Types
Types of component (start / middle / end).
Action
Action that the component will do.
Table 2.
Representation of non-functional requirements
Non-Functional
Requirements
Description
Price
Budget to allocate for each component.
Response Time
total amount of time it takes to respond to a request for service
Reputation
typically a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria
Success rate
the fraction of success among a number of attempts
Fig. 2.
Representation
of the Assistant software
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