Cloud-based platform for collaborative business process management

Abstract

Abstract-With the wide adoption of the Internet, organizations establish collaborative networks to execute Collaborative Business Processes (CBPs). Current approaches of Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs) to implement and execute CBPs have shortcomings: high costs and complexity of IT infrastructure to deploy the PAISs; poor support for autonomy, decentralization, global view of message exchange and peer-to-peer interactions; and rigid platforms for generating and deploying PAISs on-demand according with the CBPs agreed in collaborative networks. To overcome these issues, this work proposes a cloud-based platform for the management of CBPs. The platform provides cloud services that enable the generation and deployment on-demand of the PAISs required to implement the agreed CBPs, as well as the execution on-demand of CBPs by fulfilling the abovementioned issues. To deal with privacy issues, the platform can be deployed in private clouds. Elasticity is provided at the level of process instances and portability is also achieved.

Collaborative Business Process Management Through a Platform Based on Cloud Computing

“…This work complements a previous work [11] by adding: a detailed description of main the components of the platform, a proposal of an implementation schema that enables the deployment of the platform in IaaS environments from different IaaS providers/platforms, and a case study that allows showing the applicability of the platform.…”

“…In order to achieve the requirement of portability, it is proposed to implement the platform by following a standard for deployment and management of PaaS platform's lifecycles. Even though initially was considered the OCCI-PaaS standard [43] in previous work [11], the lack of implementations besides the rOCCI project [44], lead us to the selection of another alternative (there is a proposal of a Java implementation called jOCCI, but uses the services of the rOCCI implementation behind the scenes [45]). The Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) [46] standard was selected to implement the platform, since it is oriented to PaaS solutions and focused not only the deployment but also in the lifecycle management of the deployed applications.…”