An Evaluation of Service Integration Approaches of Business Process Management Systems

Doedt, Markus; Steffen, Bernhard

doi:10.1109/sew.2012.23

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“…Moreover, according to the principal of "separation of concerns" as a main concern in software engineering, employing the BPMN and BPEL simultaneously is not recommended. Doedt et al [5] argue that while a business expert is aware of the BPs in an organization, he/she does not often know how to implement a service. Similarly, while the programmer knows how to implement a described service, he/she is not properly aware of the nature of processes running at the organization.…”

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Service Oriented Collaborative Network Architecture

Sargolzaei

2017

Collaboration in a Data-Rich World

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A service-oriented collaborative network (SOCN) supports collaboration among a network of organizations through their shared business services. SOCN in comparison with traditional collaborative networks, promotes and simplifies reusability and interconnection of shared software services, in a distributed manner. Our work contributes to comprehensive support of software service oriented collaboration among networked organizations enabling semi-automated service discovery, selection, and composition in collaborative environments. With the help of an organizational monitoring tool, we improve the accuracy of claimed characteristics based on non-functional criteria of services. The reference framework and implementation architecture are defined in this paper to support implementing SOCN.

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Service Oriented Collaborative Network Architecture

Sargolzaei

2017

Collaboration in a Data-Rich World

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“…Since in education information system there are a lot of complex cross-different departments and system processes, the need for systems integration and services integrated is urgent. One should think that service integration is standardized with the upcoming of BPMN 2.0, however, BPMN defines surprisingly little about service integration [11]. With the support of Custom Processes and Services library, system integration is made easy.…”

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BPM-driven Educational Informationization Technology

Gao¹,

Liu²,

Zhao³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics, Engineering, Management and Computer Science

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Education informationization is an important part of the reform and development of education. Based on the re-usable and executable "task" and "sub-process" in BPMN elements, a supporting platform for education information system driven by Business Processes is proposed in this paper to meet the characteristics of education information systems: frequent requirement changes and processes cross systems and departments. The platform consists of three parts: a) Custom Processes and Services library; b) Business Process Management Engine; and c) process driven infrastructure that supports the business system. This the Custom Processes and Services library includes education information system oriented custom processes unit library and Custom Service Library; the process driven infrastructure includes Portal Generate Framework and Pages Jump Support Framework. The reusable tasks, sub-processes and services which can be conveniently assembled to processes models to meet the requirements changes frequently, are all collected in Custom Processes and Services library. In order to validate the effectiveness of the platform and technology proposed in this paper, an Advices Collecting System is introduced and designed by the platform and technology. The results show that the supporting platform for education information system driven by Business Processes is an outstanding solution to tackle cross-system integration and frequent requirements changes problems in education information systems.

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“…With the introduction of execution semantics for BPMN2 [41,2], business process models have started to be used to integrate the application expert in the overall development process. This inclusive trend is however still young and suffers from complicated mechanisms for integrating user-defined or third party activities/services [8,1,44,3,42]. The only exception is the jABC framework, that was designed from the very beginning for easing the integration process and that even offers systematic formal methods-based product line [26] and variability [11] support.…”

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Higher-Order Process Modeling: Product-Lining, Variability Modeling and Beyond

Neubauer

Steffen

Margaria

2013

Electron. Proc. Theor. Comput. Sci.

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We present a graphical and dynamic framework for binding and execution of (business) process models. It is tailored to integrate 1) ad hoc processes modeled graphically, 2) third party services discovered in the (Inter)net, and 3) (dynamically) synthesized process chains that solve situationspecific tasks, with the synthesis taking place not only at design time, but also at runtime. Key to our approach is the introduction of type-safe stacked second-order execution contexts that allow for higher-order process modeling. Tamed by our underlying strict service-oriented notion of abstraction, this approach is tailored also to be used by application experts with little technical knowledge: users can select, modify, construct and then pass (component) processes during process execution as if they were data. We illustrate the impact and essence of our framework along a concrete, realistic (business) process modeling scenario: the development of Springer's browser-based Online Conference Service (OCS). The most advanced feature of our new framework allows one to combine online synthesis with the integration of the synthesized process into the running application. This ability leads to a particularly flexible way of implementing self-adaption, and to a particularly concise and powerful way of achieving variability not only at design time, but also at runtime. MotivationBusiness process modeling has evolved from mere collection of requirements artifacts, supported by tools like ARIS [45], to an important element in the whole development process of complex applications. With the introduction of execution semantics for BPMN2 [41,2], business process models have started to be used to integrate the application expert in the overall development process. This inclusive trend is however still young and suffers from complicated mechanisms for integrating user-defined or third party activities/services [8,1,44,3,42]. The only exception is the jABC framework, that was designed from the very beginning for easing the integration process and that even offers systematic formal methods-based product line [26] and variability [11] support. On the other hand, in particular AristaFlow [4] promoted ad hoc process modeling as a particularly convenient way for customization. An ad-hoc approach allows users to adapt processes at runtime for a single use, a heuristics that has also successfully been used in [21] Sec. 3.2.3.What is missing to be fully prepared for future demands is a comprehensive, type-safe framework for flexibility, able to capture variability uniformly both at design time and at runtime in a hierarchical fashion. The usefulness of this ad-hoc and context-aware flexibility is illustrated by the following three increasingly demanding route planning scenarios:Static Route Planning: Planning the route before a trip using e.g. google maps gives a selection of nice choices and the option for a detailed investigation, and one is able to 'personalize' the own trip.

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An Evaluation of Service Integration Approaches of Business Process Management Systems

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Service Oriented Collaborative Network Architecture

Service Oriented Collaborative Network Architecture

BPM-driven Educational Informationization Technology

Higher-Order Process Modeling: Product-Lining, Variability Modeling and Beyond

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