Adaptable Decentralized Service Oriented Architecture
Journal of Systems and Software
Safe distribution of declarative processes
SEFM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software engineering and formal methods
Declarative modelling and safe distribution of healthcare workflows
FHIES'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Foundations of Health Informatics Engineering and Systems
Process Evolution in a Distributed Process Execution Environment
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
Process fragmentation, distribution and execution using an event-based interaction scheme
Journal of Systems and Software
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Web service paradigm and related technologies have provided favorable means for the realization of collaborative business processes. From both conceptual and implementation points of view, the business processes are based on a centralized management approach. Nevertheless, it is very well known that the enterprise-wide process management where processes may span multiple organizational units requires particular considerations on scalability, heterogeneity, availability and privacy issues, that in turn, require particular consideration on decentralization. In this paper, our aim is to reconcile the decentralization of processes as a step towards the enterprise-wide solutions. We propose a methodology for transforming a centralized process specification into a form that is amenable to a distributed execution and to incorporate the necessary synchronization between different processing entities. The proposed technique has the advantage of being flexible that it computes the abstract constructs and provides a generalized approach to the decentralization of processes.