2023 Assignment 3 (Group Assignment) - 1

Department of Computing
Semester 2, 2023
COMP3760/6760: Enterprise Systems Integration
Assignment 3 (Group Assignment): System Integration
(20% of the semester)
Adapted and modified by Yang Zhang from the work of Prof. Jian Yang.
Due 11:55 pm Tuesday - 31 October 2023

COMP3760/6760 Assignment 3 Semester 2, 2021
Process and Service Support for Study Aboard
(Source: COMP3760/6760 Assignment 2 Specification).
Background Information: Study Abroad - Assignment 2 by Dr. Peter
In recent years, the opportunity to incorporate international study into their degrees has become increasingly
accessible for Australian students. Pursuing a study abroad experience is viewed as a pathway to enhanced
employability after graduation by students and as a valuable point of distinction among job applicants by
employers. Typically lasting one semester, these study abroad programs can also extend up to a year for those
seeking a more extended international academic experience.
The Application Process:
The high-level process architecture of a study abroad application covers the core, support, and management
process. The core processes include activities of a student study abroad application and the student
administration team revolving around an application (figure 1).
Figure 1: Simplified Flow of a Typical Study Abroad Application (SAA)
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Project Brief (4 marks)
Provide a description on: the group meeting schedule or plan, each member’s role in the project, identifying risks
and ways to manage risks, ways to communicate between members, and a log recording each meeting,
discussion and dialogue between members in relation to the project. Note: all members need to contribute to the
project. The description and log need to be submitted together with the four tasks.
Task 1 Collaborative Business Process and EAI (4 marks)
When a student puts an application to study a course aboard, we need check her/his degree program structure,
the relevant information about the course available in the partner’s university, to judge if the selected course
meets the required credit points and the contents, and to check if her/his degree program allows such selection.
A degree program structure normally contains the total credit points required, the core units required at different
level; while the unit information includes the prerequisite units and offering semester. Different universities may
have different degree rules and course requirements.
The objective of this task is

• to use BPMN notation (Week 2 lecture) to draw a collaborative business process based on Figure 1, in
which you need to show partners (users), how they interact, and how information/messages are
exchanged.
• There are various ways to design and implement this collaborative business process. Suppose all the
partner universities have systems similar to our eStudent, design and draw an EAI system that support
student make an inquiry or lodge an application to MQ portal for study aboard.
• Explain how queries are processed in your EAI system. You may make the necessary assumptions.
Task 2 Web Service Design (4 marks)
Suppose you are wrapping the SAA process (Figure 1) as a web service, which allows a student to create a
application for studying aboard. You are required to:
• Identify the two necessary functions of this SAA service. You can make your assumptions based on
your experience in study applications;
• For each of the above functions, identify the input/output messages;
• Use WSDL interface definition constructs to specify the above identified functions with input/output
messages.
Task 3 XML Schema Design (4 marks)
For the above input/output messages, write their XML Schemas. You need to include the following:
• Two different ways of specifying complex types, one is defined inside the element, the other defines a
complex type first, then (re-)uses it as a complex type of an element;
• Use constraints on the values of a simple typed element, on the occurrence of elements;
• Pick up one xml schema, construct a sample xml document.
Task 4 Discussion (4 marks, @ 800 words)

“Different partner universities have different degree programs with different rules and different credit systems.
Their student support systems are implemented differently with different interfaces”, from this description we
can image there are different systems implemented in different sites to support SAA. For example, at Macquarie
University, Bachelor of IT program has 5 majors to choose. This program requires students to take core units at
different levels and select elective units. eStudent is used for students to enroll in program, select units to study,
apply for special considerations, etc. A partner university in US may have different program structure and the
program information can be found in their website without the capability for students to select units to study.
Use what you have learned in the unit to discuss the following:
• How does robotic process automation (RPA) assist in the entire process?
• The possible technologies potentially used to support system integration at various levels.
• The options and considerations of the technologies along with their advantages and disadvantages.
Submission: one submission per group, together with the project description and log.
Zero Tolerance for Cheating:
You are required to use your own words to provide the descriptions and explanations. All submissions will be
checked for plagiarism. Any cases will be reported to the faculty for disciplinary action, and the marks of the
assignment and the unit will be withheld until the case has been resolved. See Macquarie University’s code of
conduct for the details of the process: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/getting-started/student-conduct.
Submission
Place your soft copy in your assignment 3 submission folder on iLearn.
Due 11:55 pm Tuesday - 31 October 2023 (Hard deadline)
Marking Rubric
Developing Functional Proficient Advanced

(Borderline Pass-Fail) (Pass) (Credit) (Distinction-High
Distinction)
Showing some Showing Good understanding of Excellent
understanding of understanding of system integration understanding of
system integration system integration, can issues, can explain and system integration and
apply technologies in use the technologies can explain and use
System
the business case proficiently and the technologies at an
Integration
appropriately without expert level
any significant
mistakes
Limited Competent Some incorporation of An excellent grasp of

understanding of understanding of XML the literature beyond XML and web services,
XML, web services, and web services, just competent also drawing on the
some obvious some trivial mistakes understanding of literature widely to
XML, web mistakes still in evidence, but XML and web exemplify in the case of
service generally an services further examples how
understanding of what XML and web services
is taking place has aided system
and why integration as well

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Department of Computing

COMP3760/6760: Enterprise Systems Integration

Assignment 3 (Group Assignment): System Integration

(20% of the semester)

Due 11:55 pm Tuesday - 31 October 2023

Process and Service Support for Study Aboard

(Source: COMP3760/6760 Assignment 2 Specification).

Background Information: Study Abroad - Assignment 2 by Dr. Peter

The Application Process:

Figure 1: Simplified Flow of a Typical Study Abroad Application (SAA)

Task 1 Collaborative Business Process and EAI (4 marks)

The objective of this task is

Task 2 Web Service Design (4 marks)

Task 3 XML Schema Design (4 marks)

Task 4 Discussion (4 marks, @ 800 words)

Zero Tolerance for Cheating:

Place your soft copy in your assignment 3 submission folder on iLearn.

Due 11:55 pm Tuesday - 31 October 2023 (Hard deadline)

Developing Functional Proficient Advanced

Limited Competent Some incorporation of An excellent grasp of

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