Supporting BPMN choreography with system integration artefacts for enterprise process collaboration

Abstract

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) choreography modelling depicts externally visible message exchanges between collaborating processes of enterprise information systems. Implementation of choreography relies on designing system integration solutions to realise message exchanges between independently developed systems. Enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) are widely accepted artefacts to design integration solutions. If the choreography model represents coordination requirements between processes with behaviour mismatches, the integration designer needs to analyse the routing requirements and address these requirements by manually designing EIP message routers. As collaboration scales and complexity increases, manual design becomes inefficient. Thus, the research problem of this paper is to explore a method to automatically identify routing requirements from BPMN choreography model and to accordingly design routing in the integration solution. To achieve this goal, recurring behaviour mismatch scenarios are analysed as patterns, and corresponding solutions are proposed as EIP routers. Using this method, a choreography model can be analysed by computer to identify occurrences of mismatch patterns, leading to corresponding router selection. A case study demonstrates that the proposed method enables computer-assisted integration design to implement choreography. A further experiment reveals that the method is effective to improve the design quality and reduce time cost.

A microservice composition approach based on the choreography of BPMN fragments

“…For instance, Decker et al (2008) transform BPMN models into BPEL4Chor descriptions to execute choreographies. Nie et al (2014) identify enterprise integration patterns from BPMN models in order to define data flows that can be executed by EAI technologies such as ESBs. Nikaj et al (2019) use the business process choreography diagram introduced in BPMN 2.0 to generate formal specification of RESTful choreographies.…”

Collaborative process cartography deduction based on collaborative ontology and model transformation

“…Bae et al [2] introduce a methodology for incorporating business process semantics and alternative paths in the Business Process Management structure. Nie et al [32] base their work on exchanged messages among processes. They consider behavior mismatch scenarios as the main feature of the message to identify occurrences in the mismatch patterns, leading to a corresponding process.…”