Business policy compliance in service-oriented systems

Weigand, Hans; Heuvel, Willem‐Jan van den; Hiel, Marcel

doi:10.1016/j.is.2010.12.005

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“…The business rules considered in their framework are related to the structure of a business process. Weigand et al (2011) provide a formal characterisation of behavioural rules for business policy compliance for SOA which is again useful for checking the structural compliance of business processes. While Ramezani et al (2012Ramezani et al ( , 2013 identified 54 control-flow based compliance rules distributed over 10 categories and 15 temporal rules distributed over 7 categories and proposed a compliance checking approach.…”

Section: Process Compliance In Soa/cloud Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Normative requirements for regulatory compliance: An abstract formal framework

2015

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By definition, regulatory rules (in legal context called norms) intend to achieve specific behaviour from business processes, and might be relevant to the whole or part of a business process. They can impose conditions on different aspects of process models, e.g., control-flow, data and resources etc. Based on the rules sets, norms can be classified into various classes and sub-classes according to their effects. This paper presents an abstract framework consisting of a list of norms and a generic compliance checking approach on the idea of (possible) execution of processes. The proposed framework is independent of any existing formalism, and provides a conceptually rich and exhaustive ontology and semantics of norms needed for business process compliance checking. Apart from the other uses, the proposed framework can be used to compare different compliance management frameworks (CMFs).

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Section: Process Compliance In Soa/cloud Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Normative requirements for regulatory compliance: An abstract formal framework

2015

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“…Despite various rule technology solutions, rules are usually only applied in decision making in an automated process. Weigand et al [13] have pointed out that many Business Rule approaches are restricted as they "concentrate on the application for decision-making and do not address the business process constraints that underlie service composition". In a SOA environment, this means the BR is hard coded in process, like BPEL.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a SOA environment, this means the BR is hard coded in process, like BPEL. Although BPEL is the de facto standard for business process descriptions, BPEL is not flexible [13]. Service composition in BPEL relies on hardcoded BRs.…”

Section: Administrative Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive and Compliant Policy Implementation: Creating Administrative Processes Using Semantic Web Services and Business Rules

Gong

Janssen

2013

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Adapting to and complying with frequently changing policy against low costs requires flexible business processes. Yet, existing systems are unrelated, consist of operating silos, involve many human translation tasks and policies are hardcoded in business processes. From a technology perspective, both Semantic Web Service (SWS) and Business Rule (BR) can be used to create flexible business processes that can adapt to changes in policy. Despite their potential these technologies are seldom integrated or used in administrative organizations. SWS can be adopted to present functionality needed in processes, whereas the elicitation of BR is an important ingredient for process creation. In this paper, we derive and test guidelines for creating administrative processes that are dynamical created using SWSs and BRs that are derived from policies. A case study is used to demonstrate and evaluate the guidelines. The guidelines can serve as a foundation for developing agile and compliant architectures.

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“…The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) [2], is the de facto standard for web services orchestration. However, it is static and not easy to adapt [16]. In this regard, a number of works propose flexible alternatives to BPEL, to allow for the construction of more flexible and adaptable business processes [9][5][7] [17].…”

Section: Web Service Compositionmentioning

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REFlex: An Efficient Web Service Orchestrator for Declarative Business Processes

Silva

Carvalho

Oliveira

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Service-Oriented Computing

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Declarative business process modeling is a flexible approach to business process management in which participants can decide the order in which activities are performed. Business rules are employed to determine restrictions and obligations that must be satisfied during execution time. In this way, complex control-flows are simplified and participants have more flexibility to handle unpredicted situations. Current implementations of declarative business process engines focus only on manual activities. Automatic communication with external applications to exchange data and reuse functionality is barely supported. Such automation opportunities could be better exploited by a declarative engine that integrates with existing SOA technologies. In this paper, we introduce an engine that fills this gap. REFlex is an efficient, data-aware declarative web services orchestrator. It enables participants to call external web services to perform automated tasks. Different from related work, the REFlex algorithm does not depend on the generation of all reachable states, which makes it well suited to model large and complex business processes. Moreover, REFlex is capable of modeling datadependent business rules, which provides unprecedent context awareness and modeling power to the declarative paradigm.

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Business policy compliance in service-oriented systems

Cited by 25 publications

References 37 publications

Normative requirements for regulatory compliance: An abstract formal framework

Normative requirements for regulatory compliance: An abstract formal framework

Adaptive and Compliant Policy Implementation: Creating Administrative Processes Using Semantic Web Services and Business Rules

REFlex: An Efficient Web Service Orchestrator for Declarative Business Processes

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