Structured Business Process Specification

2010 ◽  
pp. 161-194
Author(s):  
Dirk Draheim
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Specification

Specifying Business-Level Protocols for Web Services Based Collaborative Processes

2013 ◽  
pp. 137-154
Author(s):  
W. L. Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Specification Languages ◽  
Business Process Execution Language ◽  
Negotiation Protocol ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Process Specification ◽  
Business Process Execution ◽  
The Web

Business collaboration is increasingly conducted over the Internet. Trading parties require business-level protocols for enabling their collaborative processes and a number of standardised languages, and approaches have been proposed for specifying business-level protocols. To illustrate the specification of web services based collaborative processes, three inter-related specification languages, namely, the ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS), the Web Service Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL), and the Web Services Conversations Language (WSCL) are discussed in this chapter. A contract negotiation protocol is used as an example to illustrate the concepts involved in the specification. The chapter also discusses different strategies for deploying these specification languages.

scholarly journals Business process specification, verification, and deployment in a mono-cloud, multi-edge context

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-313
Author(s):  
Saoussen Cheikhrouhou ◽  
Slim Kallel ◽  
Ikbel Guidara ◽  
Zakaria Maamar
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Design Time ◽  
Process Specification ◽  
Time Latency ◽  
Specification And Verification ◽  
Edge Based

Despite the prevalence of cloud and edge computing, ensuring the satisfaction of time-constrained business processes, remains challenging. Indeed, some cloud/edge-based resources might not be available when needed leading to delaying the execution of these processes? tasks and/or the transfer of these processes? data. This paper presents an approach for specifying, verifying, and deploying time constrained business processes in a mono-cloud, multi-edge context. First, the specification and verification of processes happen at design-time and run-time to ensure that these processes? tasks and data are continuously placed in a way that would mitigate the violation of time constraints. This mitigation might require moving tasks and/or data from one host to another to reduce time latency, for example. A host could be either a cloud, an edge, or any. Finally, the deployment of processes using a real case-study allowed to confirm the benefits of the early specification and verification of these processes in mitigating time constraints violations.

scholarly journals Extending Conceptual Schemas with Business Process Information

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Brambilla ◽  
Jordi Cabot ◽  
Sara Comai
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Workflow Management ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Conceptual Schema ◽  
Small Organizations ◽  
Process Specification ◽  
Technological Platform ◽  
Relevant Domain

The specification of business processes is becoming a more and more critical aspect for organizations. Such processes are specified as workflow models expressing the logical precedence among the different business activities (i.e., the units of work). Typically, workflow models are managed through specific subsystems, called workflow management systems, to ensure a consistent behavior of the applications with respect to the organization business process. However, for small organizations and/or simple business processes, the complexity and capabilities of these dedicated workflow engines may be overwhelming. In this paper, we therefore, advocate for a different and lightweight approach, consisting in the integration of the business process specification within the system conceptual schema. We show how a workflow-extended conceptual schema can be automatically obtained, which serves both to enforce the organization business process and to manage all its relevant domain data in a unified way. This extended model can be directly processed with current CASE tools, for instance, to generate an implementation of the system (including its business process) in any technological platform.

scholarly journals Generating Block-Structured Parallel Process Models by Demonstration

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1876
Author(s):  
Julijana Lekić ◽  
Dragan Milićev ◽  
Dragan Stanković
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Original Method ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Programming By Demonstration ◽  
Event Logs ◽  
Process Specification ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Block Structured

Programming by demonstration (PBD) is a technique which allows end users to create, modify, accommodate, and expand programs by demonstrating what the program is supposed to do. Although the ideal of common-purpose programming by demonstration or by examples has been rejected as practically unrealistic, this approach has found its application and shown potentials when limited to specific narrow domains and ranges of applications. In this paper, the original method of applying the principles of programming by demonstration in the area of process mining (PM) to interactive construction of block-structured parallel business processes models is presented. A technique and tool that enable interactive process mining and incremental discovery of process models have been described in this paper. The idea is based on the following principle: using a demonstrational user interface, a user demonstrates scenarios of execution of parallel business process activities, and the system gives a generalized model process specification. A modified process mining technique with the α|| algorithm applied on weakly complete event logs is used for creating parallel business process models using demonstration.

Semantically Enriched e-Business Standards Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 655-675
Author(s):  
Bahareh Rahmanzadeh Heravi ◽  
Mark Lycett
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Technical Specification ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Process Specification ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Development Organisation ◽  
Trading Partners ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Standards Development

An e-Business standard is a technical specification that provides a shared understanding and agreement on the shared information and data among trading partners. Standards are usually developed in a standards development organisation, where a guideline for the process of developing standards is provided. However, these guidelines are mainly concerned with the administrative aspect of the standardisation process, and there is a lack of practical technological support for developing the content of a standard specification. This chapter reviews the characteristics of e-Business standards and their development process and presents OntoStanD, a novel, comprehensive, ontology-based collaborative standards development methodology. OntoStanD is then applied on ebXML business process specification schema to demonstrate the application of OntoStanD.

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