A conceptual framework for composition in business process management

  • Authors:
  • Ingo Weber;Ivan Markovic;Christian Drumm

  • Affiliations:
  • SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany;SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany;SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • BIS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Business information systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this work, we present a conceptual framework for deriving executable business process models from high-level, graphical business process models based on the paradigm of Service-Oriented Architectures and Semantic Web technology. We hereby envision a direct, but implicit link from a business analyst's view on a process model to its execution driven by an IT system. This linkage enables the derivation of an execution-level model for newly created business process models as well as adaptation of the execution model after reengineering processes, possibly under certain re-design goals (such as quality, cost, execution time, flexibility, or others). The framework includes a component architecture and an algorithm that describes how to combine executable artifacts, such as (Semantic) Web services, in order to find an implementation that matches a given business process model. An extensible set of criteria can be used for validating the composition.