A Comparative Study of Process Mediator Components That Support Behavioral Incompatibility

Munusamy, Kanmani; Selamat, Hazlina; Ibrahim, Suhaimi; Baba, Mohd-Sapiyan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3439923

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“…Existing solutions propose to build mediators to overcome the mismatches between communicating processes (Benatallah, Casati, Grigori, & Nezhad, 2005) (Munusamy, Selamat, Ibrahim, & Baba, 2011) (Seguel, Eshuis, & Grefen, 2009) (Taher, van den Heuvel, & Parkin, 2012).…”

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Standards Compliant Platform for Product Design in Dynamic Environments

Khalfallah

Figay

Barhamgi

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The literature on product-based workflow design considers only static collaborative environments where the product model is static and does not change. However the possible evolution of the product model and thus its impact on the collaborative environment are not considered despite the importance of this evolution for innovative product design. As a result the uncontrolled changes can easily break the cross-organizational process that links the different stakeholders in the collaborative environment. In this paper we present a framework that builds the collaboration contract from the product model and supports a controlled evolution of this contract. We leverage this framework by a set of management operations (services) that enable the contract evolution and investigate how a tailoring operation will not impact the executable cross-organizational process unless this process is maintained executable by the workflow engine. These operations are provided as services by a collaborative platform. Nevertheless, software applications that are provided through services following the Software as a service (SaaS) paradigm generally need to be compliant to some standards. In order to implement our management operations, we need to select the software application that provides the most conformant service interface to a given standard. Accordingly, we develop a formal framework that tests the compliance and reports quantitative results that help experts take the right decision. Unlike existing work that focuses on a single dimension when checking the compliance of a software application with the corresponding standard (for example the functional dimension exclusively, or the syntactic dimension exclusively), in this work we consider multiple dimensions at the same time. This provides more comprehensive results.

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Section: Managing Dynamic Collaboration Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Standards Compliant Platform for Product Design in Dynamic Environments

Khalfallah

Figay

Barhamgi

et al. 2014

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Cross-Organizational Business Processes Modeling Using Design-by-Contract Approach

Khalfallah

Figay

Ghodous

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Reaching agreements between organizations in a collaborative environment is a way to ensure interoperability between these organizations at all levels. For business processes interoperability this agreement can be reached by well defining the cross-organizational process. However most BPM frameworks have used meta-models centered on flows of activities, with the data manipulated by these activities seen as second-class citizens. For business analysts (for example in complex product design collaborative environments) data plays a major role. In this paper, we propose a methodology backed by a conceptual framework to model the cross-organizational process relying on the product model. This framework defines the evolution of the product model through a finite number of states, and then automatically generates executable artifacts to support the collaboration during run-time phase. This approach is being implemented in the living laboratory provided by EADS in the context of the European project IMAGINE.

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