Automating data exchange in process choreographies

Communication between organizations is formalized as process choreographies in daily business. While the correct ordering of exchanged messages can be modeled and enacted with current choreography techniques, no approach exists to describe and automate the exchange of data between processes in a choreography using messages. This paper describes an entirely model-driven approach for BPMN introducing a few concepts that suffice to model data retrieval, data transformation, message exchange, and correlation – four aspects of data exchange. For automation, this work utilizes a recent concept to enact data dependencies in internal processes. We present a modeling guideline to derive local process models from a given choreography; their operational semantics allows to correctly enact the entire choreography from the derived models only including the exchange of data. Targeting on successful interactions, we discuss means to ensure correct process choreography modeling. Finally, we implemented our approach by extending the camunda BPM platform with our approach and show its feasibility by realizing all service interaction patterns using only model-based concepts.     

基于结构元的BPMN—BPEL映射方法

针对BPMN流程走向随意性特点及其向具有块结构特点的BPEL模型映射时难度较大的问题,通过对常用工作流控制模式的分析,提出了结构元的概念,从而把BPMN流程模型转变为由结构元表示的流程模型,不但简化了流程模型的复杂程度,而且降低了映射的难度。     

Desiderata for Languages to be Used in the Defnition of Reference Business Processes

In many modern enterprises, explicit business process de nitions facilitate the pursuit of business goals in such ways as best practice reuse, process analysis, processe ciency improvement, and automation. Most real-world business processes are large and complex. Successfully capturing, analysing, and automating these processes requires process de nition languages that capture a variety of process aspects with a wealth of details. Mostcurrent process modelling languages, such as Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN),focus on structural control ows among activities while providing inadequate support for other process de nition needs. In this paper, we rst illustrate these inadequacies through our experiences with a collection of real-world reference business processes from the Aus-tralian lending industry. We observe that the most signi cant inadequacies include lack of resource management, exception handling, process variation, and data ow integration.These identi ed shortcomings led us to consider the Little-JIL language as a vehicle forde ning business processes. Little-JIL addresses the afore-mentioned inadequacies with a number of innovative features. Our investigation concludes that these innovative features are e ective in addressing a number of key reference business process de nition needs.     

BPEL流程监视的可视化实现

When a BPEL process is executed, it is necessary to dynamically monitor the process. BPEL is a executable language, which is not suitable for visual monitoring. On the other hand, BPMN is designed to visually describe business process and is more intuitive for monitoring. To visually monitor a BPEL process, transformation from BPEL to BPMN is necessary. However, current study of transformation from BPEL to BPMN does not support the transformation of "link" activity. Besides, no work has been done to add supplementary information into BPMN during transformation. In this paper, we transform nested BPEL process into a flat BPMN process graph without hierarchy through applying a flattening strategy. Especially, we analyze various scenarios of the transformation of link activity, and provide a method to deal with it. Besides, we analyze the mapping between BPEL activities and BPMN graph, through which we found out that some supplementary information cannot automatically obtained from BPEL process. These supplementary information need to be added during transformation. At the end of this paper, we present the structure of our monitoring tool which is based on our transformation algorithm.     

BPMN映射到BPEL4WS的模型边界确定方法

针对BPMN边界灵活的特点以及由此向BPEL4WS映射时带来的问题，提出利用概念化令牌作为中间元素，将BPMN边界至BPEL4WS边界的映射转化成两个步骤，解决BPMN向BPEL4WS映射时的边界确定问题。     

BPMN: An introduction to the standard

The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is the de-facto standard for representing in a very expressive graphical way the processes occurring in virtually every kind of organization one can think of, from cuisine recipes to the Nobel Prize assignment process, incident management, e-mail voting systems, travel booking procedures, to name a few. In this work, we give an overview of BPMN and we present what are the links with other well-known machineries such as BPEL and XPDL. We give an assessment of how the OMG's BPMN standard is perceived and used by practitioners in everyday business process modeling chores.     

支持复杂事件处理的业务流程建模研究

现有的流程建模语言缺少对复杂事件的支持.通过对BPMN进行扩展,提出一种事件的分层方法来表达业务过程中的基本事件和复杂事件.在此基础上进一步提出CE-BPM建模方法,并给出其形式化定义和图形化表示,增加了复杂事件和复杂事件处理网关的图形表示.最后通过实例来说明用BPMN建模时遇到的问题以及如何用CE-BPM建模解决问题的.     

智慧家庭服务系统过程建模与设计

智慧家庭服务系统是现代服务计算和云计算环境下服务系统的新形态和新应用,对智慧家庭服务业务过程的分析、建模与设计问题进行了研究。介绍了智慧家庭的新理念,提出了智慧家庭服务系统的体系结构。在详细分析家庭服务业务过程基础上,提出了基于BPMN建模语言的智慧家庭服务过程建模方法。最后以具有典型性的采购服务为例,建立了服务过程模型,并给出了设计与实现方案。     

基于 Activiti 流程管理关键技术设计与实现

Activiti 是用于管理业务流程的工作流引擎,它的使用降低了复杂业务流程开发与维护的难度。但在实际应用中,流程节点无法自由跳转,给管理和使用带来诸多不便。本文研究了 Activiti 中的系统框架和接口,基于现有接口设计实现了流程节点自由跳转功能,并进行了框架整合。测试结果表明,该功能满足各项既定功能需求,具有一般性,可满足实际工作中相关要求。     

A modular approach to the specification and management of time duration constraints in BPMN

The modeling and management of business processes deals with temporal aspects both in the inherent representation of activity coordination and in the specification of activity properties and constraints. In this paper, we address the modeling and specification of constraints related to the duration of process activities. In detail, we consider the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard and propose an approach to define re-usable duration-aware process models that make use of existing BPMN elements for representing different nuances of activity duration at design time. Moreover, we show how advanced event-handling techniques may be exploited for detecting the violation of duration constraints during the process run-time. The set of process models specified in this paper suitably captures duration constraints at different levels of abstraction, by allowing designers to specify the duration of atomic tasks and of selected process regions in a way that is conceptually and semantically BPMN-compliant. Without loss of generality, we refer to real-world clinical working environments to exemplify our approach, as their intrinsic complexity makes them a particularly challenging and rewarding application environment.