Paper Info
Title
Towards a Unified Approach for Business Process Modeling Using Context-Based Artifacts and Web Services
Abstract
Service-Oriented Architecture is a paradigm for modeling and enacting business processes that promotes improved flexibility and monitor ability through the composition of loosely-coupled Web services. However, such process-centric composition, with focus on invoking Web services to reach a stated goal, still does not provide the desired flexibility. Web services implementations are typically locked into the business logic of the business processes that they implement. Additionally,monitoring such Web services compositions becomes cumbersome especially for business analysts and managers who are not IT experts. To address these issues, this paper presents a unified process- and data-centric approach with focus on Web services as a driving element to the changes affecting both processes and data. In this approach a business process is modeled as a collection of interacting (business) artifacts, each of which behaves as per a predefined state transition system called Artifact Life-Cycle (ALC). An ALC is enriched with contextual details, which permits business process execution monitoring. Throughout this paper, a realistic running example in the purchase order domain is used for illustration purposes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/SCC.2009.14
IEEE SCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web services,business data processing,software architecture,Web services,artifact life-cycle,business process modeling,context-based artifacts,data-centric approach,process-centric composition,purchase order domain,service-oriented architecture,unified process approach
Artifact-centric business process model,Services computing,Software engineering,Computer science,Business Process Execution Language,Business domain,Business process modeling,Business process discovery,Business Process Model and Notation,Business rule,Process management
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.54
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nanjangud C. Narendra138934.92
Youakim Badr237244.59
Philippe Thiran357546.19
Zakaria Maamar452.23