An event view specification approach for Supporting Service process collaboration

Abstract

Designing and implementing an interoperable and flexible service process collaboration strategy is one of key issues for business to business integrations. To better support service process collaboration, an event view model is proposed, which is composed of a set of event types and their dependency relationships. It provides a general and flexible way to define a public view of a service process model and serves as the basis for defining service process collaboration protocols. In the paper, the basic concepts and a system framework for event‐based service process collaboration are first introduced. The definitions of event and the dependency relationships among event types are then presented. Especially, how to identify dependency relationships among composite event types is studied in detail. After discussing the definition of event view and its specifying approach, a procedure for transforming a BPEL process model into an event model and deriving dependencies among events is given. Finally, a case study is presented, and some implementation issues for defining and publishing an event view are discussed. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Special issue: second international workshop on workflow management in service and cloud computing (WMSC2010)

“…This special issue contains nine papers based on those that were presented at WMSC2010. They are listed as . Research problems in these papers have been analysed systematically, and for specific approaches or models, evaluation has been performed to demonstrate their feasibility and advantages.…”

“…This paper proposes an event view model in order to better support service process collaboration. The model is composed of a set of event types and their dependency relationships.…”