Business Process Modeling: A Service-Oriented Approach

Cauvet, Corine; Guzélian, Gwladys

doi:10.1109/hicss.2008.84

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“…He summarised past and existing proposals for web service composition languages for understanding why so many different languages for modelling workflows, BPs compositions exist. Cauvet and Guzelian (2008) proposed an approach for designing BPs in service-oriented way, where a service composition process organises the discovery, selection and the assembly of business services to dynamically build BPs tailored to business designer's requirements. In his thesis, Stein (2009) investigated how to extend EPC to come up with a new modelling language for serviceoriented BP management.…”

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“…Unfortunately, the dynamic nature of BPs is not stressed out in these approaches; neither have they considered adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles when designing BPs (Al Rawahi and Baghdadi, 2005;Erl, 2009;Baghdadi, 2012). Recently, existing serviceoriented approaches are limited to the composition of BP with services (Cauvet and Guzelian, 2008), or extend existing BP modelling such as EPC notations to services (Stein, 2009). The existing service-oriented standards limit their contribution to a static description of an executable BP (e.g., business process execution language (BPEL) (Kloppmann and Diter, 2009), or a choreography of services [e.g., Web Service Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL)].…”

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Modelling business process with services: towards agile enterprises

Baghdadi

2014

IJBIS

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An agile enterprise rapidly adapts to changing business requirements by adapting or conceiving business processes (BPs) in response to normal or disruptive business events (BEs). This paper stresses out the role of service-orientation, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and web services along with the principles of abstraction, separation of concerns, and specialisation in modelling and implementing BPs. A BP is treated as a dynamic abstraction that specifies a state reflecting the control flow and data flow. This abstraction consists of a set of specialised services having separated concerns, namely controller service, and worker services. Shared, discoverable, reusable enterprise assets known as business objects (BOs) realise the latter. BOs encapsulate activities and data; and play the role of service units. Changes in the BP in terms of business functions and rules are solely reflected in the state, the controller service adapts to the state changes, which allows a dynamic composition of software solutions supporting changing BPs

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Section: Trends and Paradigms For Bp Modellingmentioning

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Modelling business process with services: towards agile enterprises

Baghdadi

2014

IJBIS

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“…The authors in [5] proposed an approach for designing BPs in service-oriented way, where a service composition process organizes the discovery, selection and assembly of business services to build BPs tailored to business designer's requirements. In [6], the author investigated how to extend Event-Process Chain (EPC) to come up with a new modeling language for service-oriented BP management.…”

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Extracting Services from Legacy for Service-Oriented Business Processes: Challenges and Issues

2013

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization

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Non-agile enterprises slowly adapts to changing business requirements, which could be harmful and affects their competitiveness. Their business processes are rigid and could not respond to the changes. One of the solutions is to use a service-oriented business modeling by stressing out role of SOA and Web services. In this modeling, business processes are represented by specialized services having separated concerns. These are (i) controller service, (ii) state service, and (iii) worker services. This solution requires an approach to: (1) map the existing services of the organization or its partners, or (2) reverse engineering techniques to provide business objects, represented in the information system, as a set of common, consistent service providers.

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“…If web services correspond to business services and as such are to be the elements of a service-oriented system, software developers need a solution that enables their software to make software-and businessrelated decisions, and do the business-and software-based negotiations that a human might do now. This is an area that has been largely ignored because, we judge from the literature [13,14] that proponents of discoverable web services have not thought enough about the business analogy nor truly addressed the fact that a web service, just like a service in business, is outside the client's control. The lack of business focus has resulted in impoverished analysis of the requirements.…”

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A Business Service Selection Model for Automated Web Service Discovery Requirements

Lahiri

Woodman

2009

Enterprise Information Systems

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Abstract:Automated web service (WS) discovery, i.e. discovery without human intervention, is a goal of service-oriented computing. So far it is an elusive goal. The weaknesses of UDDI and other partial solutions have been extensively discussed, but little has been articulated concerning the totality of requirements for automated web service discovery. Our work has led to the conclusion that solving automated web service discovery will not be found through solely technical thinking. We argue that the business motivation for web services must be given prominence and so have looked to processes in business for the identification, assessment and selection of business services in order to assess comprehensively the requirements for web service discovery and selection. The paper uses a generic business service selection model as a guide to analyze a comprehensive set of requirements for facilities to support automated web service discovery. The paper presents an overview of recent work on aspects of WS discovery, proposes a business service selection model, considers a range of technical issues against the business model, articulates a full set of requirements, and concludes with comments on a system to support them.

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Business Process Modeling: A Service-Oriented Approach

Cited by 36 publications

References 6 publications

Modelling business process with services: towards agile enterprises

Modelling business process with services: towards agile enterprises

Extracting Services from Legacy for Service-Oriented Business Processes: Challenges and Issues

A Business Service Selection Model for Automated Web Service Discovery Requirements

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