Title
Automation of service-based security-aware business processes in the Cloud
Abstract
The use of business process standards to model and execute business needs is growing rapidly. In addition, Service-oriented Computing has been adopted to realize business processes, which basically consists of executing the process activities using services available in the Internet. In this context, the importance of security is apparent, because sensitive data sent over the Internet may be accessed by unauthorized third-parties. To prevent security problems, users may associate security requirements that must be enforced in essential tasks of the business process. This fact leads to the need of automation, because both functional and security requirements should be modeled, at high-level, and enforced, at execution level. This work proposes a cloud-based solution named BPA-Sec4Cloud that supports all phases of the security-aware business process automation, from its modeling to its deployment. The use of a cloud-based solution facilitates the deployment process because all needed resources are available in the cloud and ready to be used. In addition, the cloud is also used as a platform in order to provide specific services, such as translators, to support the automation process. In order to evaluate the BPA-Sec4Cloud, the solution was compared against existing solutions through the use of metrics related to the quality of generated artifacts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s00607-015-0476-3
Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Business process, Automation, Security, Web services, Cloud, 68M14 Distributed systems, 68M11 Internet topics, 68U35 Information systems
Artifact-centric business process model,Business process management,Business process,Computer science,Computer security,Cloud computing security,Business process modeling,Business process discovery,Business rule,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
98
9
1436-5057
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
21
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
fernando lins100.34
Julio Damasceno241.79
robson medeiros350.80
Erica Sousa46410.62
Nelson Souto Rosa523229.55