Semantic heterogeneity in multidatabase systems
Object-oriented multidatabase systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Behavior-consistent specialization of object life cycles
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Towards a Framework for Comparing Process Modelling Languages
CAiSE '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Facilitating cross-organisational workflows with a workflow view approach
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Contract-driven coordination and collaboration in the internet context
Semantics of Control-Flow in UML 2.0 Activities
VLHCC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing
Process Aware Information Systems: Bridging People and Software Through Process Technology
Process Aware Information Systems: Bridging People and Software Through Process Technology
Declarative techniques for model-driven business process integration
IBM Systems Journal
The view-based approach to dynamic inter-organizational workflow cooperation
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Distributed Event-Based Systems
Distributed Event-Based Systems
On the suitability of BPMN for business process modelling
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
Behavior based integration of composite business processes
BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
Pattern-based analysis of the control-flow perspective of UML activity diagrams
ER'05 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
A conceptual modeling approach for web service composition supporting service re-configuration
APCCM '10 Proceedings of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling - Volume 110
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The work presented in this paper targets the software integration on the level of business process models. The goal is to create the behavioural description of an integrated system that is consistent with the behavioural descriptions of the original local systems intended to be integrated. We build the behavioural description from existing models of the local systems by inserting dependencies between them. By this means, simulation and verification of interactions between them is possible and incompatibilities can be identified at an early stage before a new system is introduced. So far, business process modelling languages have mainly focused on a single application system although B2B and enterprise application integration demand on models to express cross organisational communication and inter-process dependencies. In this paper, we investigate commonly used business process languages on their suitability to model inter-process dependencies. The result shows that there is no language which supports all identified dependencies directly and that all languages demand from the modeller to consider their low-level semantics which prevent him from focusing on the design. We propose a set of extensions of UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams to overcome these limits.