scholarly journals Smart Process Optimization and Adaptive Execution with Semantic Services in Cloud Manufacturing ‡

Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Mazzola ◽  
Philipp Waibel ◽  
Patrick Kaphanke ◽  
Matthias Klusch
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Time Service ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Service Oriented

A new requirement for the manufacturing companies in Industry 4.0 is to be flexible with respect to changes in demands, requiring them to react rapidly and efficiently on the production capacities. Together with the trend to use Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), this requirement induces a need for agile collaboration among supply chain partners, but also between different divisions or branches of the same company. In order to address this collaboration challenge, we propose a novel pragmatic approach for the process analysis, implementation and execution. This is achieved through sets of semantic annotations of business process models encoded into BPMN 2.0 extensions. Building blocks for such manufacturing processes are the individual available services, which are also semantically annotated according to the Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) principles and stored into a common marketplace. The optimization of such manufacturing processes combines pattern-based semantic composition of services with their non-functional aspects. This is achieved by means of Quality-of-Service (QoS)-based Constraint Optimization Problem (COP) solving, resulting in an automatic implementation of service-based manufacturing processes. The produced solution is mapped back to the BPMN 2.0 standard formalism by means of the introduced extension elements, fully detailing the enactable optimal process service plan produced. This approach allows enacting a process instance, using just-in-time service leasing, allocation of resources and dynamic replanning in the case of failures. This proposition provides the best compromise between external visibility, control and flexibility. In this way, it provides an optimal approach for business process models’ implementation, with a full service-oriented taste, by implementing user-defined QoS metrics, just-in-time execution and basic dynamic repairing capabilities. This paper presents the described approach and the technical architecture and depicts one initial industrial application in the manufacturing domain of aluminum forging for bicycle hull body forming, where the advantages stemming from the main capabilities of this approach are sketched.

scholarly journals Smart Process Optimization and Adaptive Execution with Semantic Services in Cloud Manufacturing ‡

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Mazzola ◽  
Philipp Waibel ◽  
Patrick Kaphanke ◽  
Matthias Klusch
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Time Service ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Service Oriented

A new requirement for the manufacturing companies in Industry 4.0 is to be flexible with respect to changes in demands, requiring them to react rapidly and efficiently on the production capacities. Together with the trend to use Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), this requirement induces a need for agile collaboration among supply chain partners, but also between different divisions or branches of the same company. In order to address this collaboration challenge, we~propose a novel pragmatic approach for the process analysis, implementation and execution. This~is achieved through sets of semantic annotations of business process models encoded into BPMN 2.0 extensions. Building blocks for such manufacturing processes are the individual available services, which are also semantically annotated according to the Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) principles and stored into a common marketplace. The optimization of such manufacturing processes combines pattern-based semantic composition of services with their non-functional aspects. This is achieved by means of Quality-of-Service (QoS)-based Constraint Optimization Problem (COP) solving, resulting in an automatic implementation of service-based manufacturing processes. The produced solution is mapped back to the BPMN 2.0 standard formalism by means of the introduced extension elements, fully detailing the enactable optimal process service plan produced. This approach allows enacting a process instance, using just-in-time service leasing, allocation of resources and dynamic replanning in the case of failures. This proposition provides the best compromise between external visibility, control and flexibility. In this way, it provides an optimal approach for business process models' implementation, with a full service-oriented taste, by implementing user-defined QoS metrics, just-in-time execution and basic dynamic repairing capabilities. This paper presents the described approach and the technical architecture and depicts one initial industrial application in the manufacturing domain of aluminum forging for bicycle hull body forming, where the advantages stemming from the main capabilities of this approach are sketched.

scholarly journals Smart Process Optimization and Adaptive Execution with Semantic Services in Cloud Manufacturing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Mazzola ◽  
Philipp Waibel ◽  
Patrick Kaphanke ◽  
Matthias Klusch
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Time Service ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Service Oriented

A new requirement for the manufacturing companies in Industry 4.0 is to be flexible with respect to changes in demands, requiring them to react rapidly and efficiently on the production capacities. Together with the trend to use Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), this requirement induces a need for agile collaboration among supply chain partners, but also between different divisions or branches of the same company. In order to address this collaboration challenge, we propose a novel pragmatic approach for the process analysis, implementation and execution. This is achieved through sets of semantic annotations of business process models encoded into BPMN 2.0 extensions. Building blocks for such manufacturing processes are the individual avaialble services, which are also semantically annotated according to the Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) principles and stored into a common marketplace. The optimization of such manufacturing processes combines pattern-based semantic composition of services with their non-functional aspects. This is achieved by means of Quality-of-Services (QoS) based constraint optimization problem (COP) solving, resulting in an automatic implementation of service-based manufacturing processes. The produced solution is mapped back to the BPMN 2.0 standard formalism by the means of introduced extension elements, fully detailing the enactable optimal process service plan produced. This approach allows enacting a process instance, using just-in-time service leasing, allocation of resources, and dynamic replanning in case of failures. This proposition provides the best compromise between external visibility, control and flexibility. In this way, it provides an optimal approach for business process models implementation, with a full service-oriented taste, by implementing user-defined QoS metrics, just-in-time execution and basic dynamic repairing capabilities. This paper presents the described approach, the technical architecture and depicts one initial industrial application in the manufacturing domains of aluminum forging for bicycle hull body forming, where the advantages stemming from the main capabilities of this approach are sketched.

From inter-organizational business process models to service-oriented architecture models

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 227-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Redouane Blal ◽  
Abderrahmane Leshob ◽  
Javier Gonzalez-Huerta ◽  
Hafedh Mili ◽  
Anis Boubaker
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Service Oriented

Transforming Activity-Centric Business Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Liu ◽  
Frederick Y. Wu ◽  
Santhosh Kumaran
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Transforming Activity ◽  
Business Entities

Much of the prior work in business process modeling is activity-centric. Recently, an information-centric approach has emerged, where a business process is modeled as the interacting lifecycles of business entities. The benefits of this approach are documented in a number of case studies. In this paper, the authors formalize the information-centric approach and derive the relationships between the two approaches. The authors formally define the notion of a business entity, provide an algorithm to transform an activity-centric model into an information-centric process model, and demonstrate the equivalence between these two models. Further, they show the value of transforming from the activity-centric paradigm to the information-centric paradigm in business process componentization and Service-Oriented Architecture design and also provide an empirical evaluation.

Ontology-based Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Deriving Software Services from Business Process Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Mokhtar Soltani ◽  
Sidi Mohamed Benslimane
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Model ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Service Identification ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Software Services

Various approaches uses business process models as starting point to derive software services. The first and the important task for developing service-oriented models is service identification. However, the majority of existing methods for service identification are developed manually because, on the one hand, they are based on the competence of the developers and, on the other hand, the business process models do not comprise sufficient knowledge to identify services automatically. The integration of Business Process Modeling (BPM), Model-Driven Development (MDD), and Ontology-based Semantic Annotation (OSA) allows the automation of the SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) services development. Three steps are used for developing an SOA solution: service identification, service specification and finally service realization. In this paper, the authors illustrate a method called MOOSI (Multi-Objective Optimization-based Service Identification) that automatically identifies the architecturally significant elements from an annotated business process model in order to specify service model artifacts. The main goal of this work is to support the automation of the development process of service-oriented enterprise information system. The implementation results of our proposed method are discussed. This result shows that MOOSI can achieve high performance in terms of execution time and important quality in terms of modularization quality of identified services compared with other solution.

scholarly journals A Method for Bridging the Gap between Business Process Models and Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 62-98
Author(s):  
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo ◽  
Flávia Santoro ◽  
Fernanda Baião ◽  
Thaissa Diirr ◽  
Alexandre Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
System Development ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Development Lifecycle ◽  
Service Identification ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Service Oriented

Many proposals in the literature are consensual in making business processes as the starting point of a Service-Oriented system development lifecycle. However, there is no systematic approach that can be easily applied in practice. We argue that an effective SOA approach requires an integrated view of organizational business processes, where services are explicitly related to business models components. Accomplishing these requirements is vital for bridging the gap between business needs and their supporting services. This work proposes a top-down method for service identification and analysis from business process models. Each step of the method implements a set of heuristics that are also specified. The method is presented in detail, and constitutes a systematic guide for service identification and analysis. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the use of the method in practice.

scholarly journals PLANNING AND DESIGN SOA ARCHITECTURE BLUEPRINT

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Tulenan
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Business Process Analysis ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
New Applications

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a framework for integrating business processes and supporting IT infrastructure as secure, standardized components-services-that can be reused and combined to address changing business priorities. Services are the building blocks of SOA and new applications can be constructed through consuming these services and orchestrating services within a business process. In SOA, services map to the business functions that are identified during business process analysis. Upon a successful implementation of SOA, the enterprise gain benefit by reducing development time, utilizing flexible and responsive application structure, and following dynamic connectivity of application logics between business partners. This paper presents SOA reference architecture blueprint as the building blocks of SOA which is services, service components and flows that together support enterprise business processes and the business goals.Keywords: Service Oriented Architecture, SOA Reference Architecture

scholarly journals SOA REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE BLUEPRINT

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
. Edison ◽  
Virginia Tulenan ◽  
Ford Lumban Gaol
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Business Process Analysis ◽  
Service Oriented

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a framework for integrating business processes and supporting IT infrastructure as secure, standardized components services that can be reused and combined to address changing business priorities. Services are the building blocks of SOA and new applications can be constructed through consuming these services and orchestrating services within a business process. In SOA, services is map to the business functions that are identified during business process analysis. Upon a successful implementation of SOA, the enterprise gain benefit by reducing development time, utilizing flexibility and responsive application structure, and following dynamic connectivity of application logics between business partners. This paper presents SOA reference architecture blueprint as the building blocks of SOA which is services, service components and flows that together support enterprise business processes and the business goals. Layanan Berorientasi Arsitektur (SOA) merupakan framework untuk mengintegrasikan proses bisnis dan mendukung infrastruktur TI secara aman, layanan komponen standar yang dapat digunakan kembali dan dikombinasikan untuk mengatasi perubahan prioritas bisnis. Layanan merupakan blok bangunan SOA, di mana aplikasi baru dapat dibangun melalui konsumsi layanan ini dan merancang layanan dalam proses bisnis. Dalam SOA, layanan dipetakan ke fungsi bisnis yang diidentifikasi selama analisis proses bisnis. Setelah keberhasilan implementasi SOA, perusahaan memperoleh keuntungan diantaranya mengurangi waktu pengembangan, memanfaatkan fleksibilitas dan struktur aplikasi responsif, dan mengikuti konektivitas dinamis dari logika aplikasi antara mitra bisnis. Paper ini menyajikan cetak biru referensi arsitektur SOA sebagai blok bangunan SOA yang merupakan komponen pelayanan jasa, dan arus yang bersama-sama mendukung proses bisnis perusahaan dan tujuan bisnis.

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