Paper Info
Title
Adaptation and Evolution Frameworks for Service Based Inter-Organizational Workflows.
Abstract
This paper describes pattern-based frameworks for adaptation and evolution of service-based workflow process models meeting specific cooperation patterns widely recognized in the B2B area. In the authors' previous works, they focused on restructuring and interconnecting workflows using the SOA paradigm so as to deal with more flexible inter-organizational workflow IOWF models. The main issue of this paper is the question of flexibility of IOWF process models where the authors distinguish two main aspects: adaptability and evolutivity affecting different levels of the IOWF process. For that, they define three categories of adptation called functional, behavioral and interactional adaptations and two categories of evolution called functional evolution and organizational evolution; then, they conceptualize some adaptation and evolution patterns which can be applied on the IOWF process models. The authors' adaptation and evolution frameworks are developed according to the MVC pattern and operate on process models specified with BPEL. Thanks to their high modularity, the frameworks are easily extensible and allow the reusing of patterns to implement other ones.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.4018/IJEBR.2017040103
IJEBR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Abstraction, Behavioral Adaptation, BPEL, Functional Adaptation, Functional Evolution, Interactional Adaptation, IOWF, Organizational Evolution, Pattern, Service
Adaptability,Abstraction,Software engineering,Reuse,Computer science,Process modeling,Knowledge management,Business Process Execution Language,Workflow,Marketing,Modularity,Restructuring
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
2
1548-1131
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.37
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Saïda Boukhedouma163.12
Z. Alimazighi24918.28
Mourad Oussalah334476.14