Towards Business Process Catalog for Cloud-Enabled Service Oriented Architectures

Abstract

Advances in cloud-enabled service-oriented architectures (SOA) have caused a resurgence of industry interest in business process catalog as a vehicle for establishing shared references for collaborative business processes. With this paper, we start to explore the state of art and practice in business process catalog and classification scheme (BPCCS) development and use for the manufacturing industry. More specifically, this paper includes two major contributions. First, we identify a set of initial requirements for BPCCS. Second, we provide a use-case analysis based on the identified requirements. We end by comparing our BPCCS requirements with those being developed across other, BPCCS R&D groups.

Standards-based semantic integration of manufacturing information: Past, present, and future

“…Also, it includes the formal representation of the usage model along with a semi-formal linkage to a business process model [68]. Standard catalog of business processes was also attempted with the purpose to enable a formal, sharable semantics usage context, which allows traceability as business process-specific standards requirements are identified and maintained [72][73]. These ideas are only starting to go into implementation [41].…”

“…Using business processes to drive the standard development and documentation is not a new idea. The idea started in the Open EDI initiative [70], continued in the ebXML activities [26], and other prior research [71][72][73].…”

“…Both of the functionalities assist in the search and reuse of business processes that in turn lead to greater reuse of services and standard usage models. Further detail about these business process management functionalities can be found in other papers focusing on the business process cataloging and classification system (BPCCS) [72][73].…”

Business Process Model Life-Cycle Management in Cloud Manufacturing

“…Previously, we identified functional BPM LCM requirements for a visionary CMfg scenarioan enterprise seeking to reduce costs and increase agility by using third party cloud providers of manufacturing and software services [9]. Such an enterprise constantly evolves its business processes.…”

“…We propose, partially at least, to automate this procedure using the Business Process Cataloging and Classification System (BPCCS). Previously, we identified requirements for BPCCS to address the business-process-model evolution-management problem [9]. Among those, Business Process Model Life Cycle Management (BPM LCM) requirements are most challenging.…”