A Semantic Web Primer
The dawning of the autonomic computing era
IBM Systems Journal
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Enterprise Ontology: Theory and Methodology
Enterprise Ontology: Theory and Methodology
Using WS-BPEL to Implement Software Fault Tolerance for Web Services
EUROMICRO '06 Proceedings of the 32nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
SH-BPEL: a self-healing plug-in for Ws-BPEL engines
Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2006)
Transactional BPEL Processes with AO4BPEL Aspects
ECOWS '07 Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Web Services
Work Distribution and Resource Management in BPEL4People: Capabilities and Opportunities
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Service Matching in Online Community for Mutual Assisted Living
SITIS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Third International IEEE Conference on Signal-Image Technologies and Internet-Based System
Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA
Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA
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With the advent of XML-based SOA, WS-BPEL swiftly became a widely accepted standard for modeling business processes. Although SOA is said to embrace the principle of business agility, BPEL process definitions are still manually crafted into their final executable version. While SOA has proven to be a giant leap forward in building flexible IT systems, this static BPEL workflow model should be enhanced to better sustain continual process evolution. In this paper, the authors discuss the potential for adding business intelligence with respect to business process re-engineering patterns to the system to allow for automatic business process optimization. Furthermore, the paper examines how these re-engineering patterns may be implemented, leveraging techniques that were applied successfully in computer science. Several practical examples illustrate the benefit of such adaptive process models. These preliminary findings indicate that techniques like the re-sequencing and parallelization of instructions, further optimized by introspection, as well as techniques for achieving software fault tolerance, are particularly valuable for optimizing business processes. Finally, the authors elaborate on the design of people-oriented business processes using common human-centric re-engineering patterns.