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Process modeling is an important prerequisite to process reorganization and management. As a result, many companies have spent much effort on process documentation, while hardly gaining equivalent benefits in the analysis and usage of the resulting process models. To balance the cost-benefit-ratio of process modeling projects with respect to their later usage, especially regarding automatic process...
One fundamental problem in services computing is how to bridge the gap between business requirements and various heterogeneous IT services. This involves eliciting business requirements and building a solution accordingly by reusing available services. While the business requirements are commonly elicited through use cases and scenarios, it is not straightforward to transform the use case model into...
Traditional integration mode is point-to-point mode, which means two systems offering interface to each other, and the relationship of systems is close-coupled. To avoid the disadvantages of this approach, this paper combines the ideas of service-oriented architecture, discusses the service-oriented workflow technology, proposes the corresponding workflow and workflow management model, then analyses...
Discovering and correcting interaction mismatches in inter-organizational business processes are important for service choreography. Automatic discovery mismatches and providing correcting plans will alleviate burdens on business modelers, however, three major challenges are: 1. by what cost model to evaluate multiple correcting plans; 2. how to avoid generating new mismatches when correcting processses;3...
In services and cloud computing, processes need to be continually adapted to changing environments and requirements. Undisciplined process adaptation could easily lead to data flow anomalies, e.g., input missing for some activities in the process. In this paper, we study the problem of data-flow-correctness-preserving adaptation and propose three important criteria that can maintain the data flow...
Computing has reached the time of distributed applications everywhere. Service-oriented architectures are more and more used to organize such complex and highly dynamic applications into business processes calling services discovered in registries at load-time. In this context, Quality of Service (QoS) and agility in business processes become key issues. Instead of binding business processes to services...
In order to solve the problem that business user do not master the techniques to describe their purposes by IT language while IT developers can not understand the real meaning of their customers', MDA approach provides a standard mechanism that can compensate this gap between different stockholders. MDA approach may use complicate models and contain many tools and rules which is difficult for user...
The integration of services into business applications within enterprise services is needed in on-premise settings as well as in upcoming on-demand enterprise settings. Today, it is typically performed in manual integration projects by highly skilled integration experts on the consumer side. As consumers demand flexible and adaptable enterprise systems with lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enterprise...
Service technology promotes loosely-coupled cross-organizational cooperations, in the quest of highly adaptive and thus competitive services. Nevertheless, most of current service standards (e.g. BPEL and WS-CDL) remain inherently rigid, knowledge-scarce and only descriptive. Towards developing such adaptive yet dependable services, we propose a stepwise approach. At the domain-level, stereotyped...
To solve united process customization and collaboration problems of various organizations, service process models fragmentation approaches based multiple BPEL execution engines were proposed. Firstly, a whole consistent model is partitioned as several self-contained implementation sub-chips which are sent to a number of BPEL execution engines respectively based on the different organizations and roles...
The evaluation of "closeness" between services is always crucial in the process of Web service integration and reuse. However, matching services solely based on their inputs/outputs is insufficient for developers to understand their behavioral properties or other constraints. To go beyond this limitation, services should be matched and integrated at the process level. But existing approaches...
Business processes are captured by models that serve as a basis for communication and training purposes, but this modeling is still a time consuming manual job. Semantic annotation of process models in combination with AI planning approaches can contribute to solve this drawback enabling an automatic creation of process models. But the semantic annotated process fragments necessary for starting the...
In recent years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been widely adopted for enterprise application integration. A SOA not only promotes interoperable, loosely coupled enterprise applications; it also reduces the conceptual gap between business and IT. For SOA life-cycle management it is desirable that business processes can be traced to services and vice versa. However, this is usually not the...
As service behavior plays a key role in service interaction, behavior-based service discovery has been increasingly recognized as a critical activity for service-based systems. However, little attention has been paid to the retrieval of behavioral models, which is critical for behavior-based discovery. This paper proposes an approach for extracting service behavioral models from WS-BPEL, which has...
By its very nature, delivering information as a service upon the demands of the business, service-based business processes offer additional features and benefits that can complement traditional BI implementations in providing enterprises of all sizes a new approach to meet their data integration and analysis needs at all levels in the enterprise. To be successful, BI solutions have required new ways...
This paper investigates context awareness in business process modelling (BPM). It introduces a context model for BPM (CM4BPM) and a role-based business process model (RBPM), and presents an approach allowing enacting processes with respect to the context. Decisions driving business processes enactment are based on context related knowledge. The proposed approach consists on using contextual knowledge...
In the banking sector business requirements continuously change whereas IT infrastructure investments must be amortized over years. This conflict produces very heterogeneous systems. Adopting the SOA / BPM approach helps coping with that complexity. This way, everything is a service, easing composition and integration. On top of that, strict security and reliability requirements exacerbate the need...
The coordination of human-oriented flexible processes remains a priority of business process management (BPM). Flexible, model-driven, process centric approaches have met with initial success when used as a coordinating device. However, maintaining model quality in rapid and frequent change remains problematic. One cause of the problem is identified as the inability of procedural models to make a...
The flexibility has been a primary focus in the development of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. To improve the flexibility of ERP system and achieve a high level of success, this paper put forward methods for business process decompose and design of workflow log, and a data mining algorithm based on XML for reengineering of ERP is proposed. Thus we realize standardization of business process,...
business process management (BPM) systems face the challenge of involving business users, who have a detailed domain expertise but lack advanced technical skills, in modeling and optimization of enterprise processes. The paper presents an architecture which enables people integration in BPM by interconnecting personal task lists and email of different users to a process-enabled middleware and generating...
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