Bridging the gap between business process models and service-oriented architectures with reference to the grid environment

  • Authors:

  • Zaheer Khan;Mohammed Odeh;Richard McClatchey

  • Affiliations:

  • Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, Department of Computer Science and Creative Technology, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England, BS16 1QY, Bristol, UK.;Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, Department of Computer Science and Creative Technology, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England, BS16 1QY, Bristol, UK.;Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, Department of Computer Science and Creative Technology, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England, BS16 1QY, Bristol, UK

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In recent years, organisations have been seeking technological solutions for enacting their business process models using ad-hoc and heuristic approaches. However, limited results have been obtained due to the expansion of business processes across geographical boundaries and the absence of structured methods, frameworks and/or Information Technology (IT) infrastructures to enact these processes. In an attempt to enact business process models using distributed technologies, we introduce a novel architectural framework to bridge the gap between business process models and Grid-aware Service-Oriented Architectures (GSOA). BPMSOA framework is aligned with the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach and is instantiated for role-based business process models [in particular Role Activity Diagramming (RAD)], using mobile process languages such as pi-ADL. The evaluation of the BPMSOA framework using the Submission process from the digital libraries domain has revealed that role-based business process models can be successfully enacted in GSOA environments with certain limitations.