Paper Info
Title
BPMN4TOSCA: A Domain-Specific Language to Model Management Plans for Composite Applications.
Abstract
TOSCA is an upcoming standard to capture cloud application topologies and their management in a portable way. Management aspects include provisioning, operation and deprovisioning of an application. Management plans capture these aspects in workflows. BPMN 2.0 as general-purpose language can be used to model these workflows. There is, however, no tailored support for management plans in BPMN. This paper analyzes TOSCA with the focus on requirements on workflow modeling languages to come up with a strong link to the application topology with the goal to improve modeling support. To simplify the modeling of management plans, we introduce BPMN4TOSCA, which extends BPMN with four TOSCA-specific elements: TOSCA Topology Management Task, TOSCA Node Management Task, TOSCA Script Task, and TOSCA Data Object. Portability is ensured by a transformation of BPMN4TOSCA to plain BPMN. A prototypical modeling tool supports the strong link between the management plan and the TOSCA topology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33155-8_4
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud Computing,Service Management,Management Plans,BPMN Extension
Domain-specific language,Service management,Systems engineering,Computer science,Provisioning,Network topology,Software portability,Workflow,Business Process Model and Notation,Cloud computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
125
1865-1348
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.60
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oliver Kopp170859.24
Tobias Binz251246.31
Uwe Breitenbücher356672.64
Frank Leymann46482578.87