Human Workflows via Document-Driven Process Choreography

Dang, Jiangbo; Toklu, C.; Hampel, Ken; Enke, U.

doi:10.1109/mcetech.2008.15

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“…, X n :: s n . A node X :: s that is not defined by any equation is called open node 6 ; it corresponds to a pending task and will have to be refined (i.e. extended into a subtree, see figure 1) by applying a production corresponding to its sort s (a s-production P : s → s 1 .…”

Section: Business Process Business Rule and Artifactmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Generally, collaborative business process management models are either based on the process activity flow [12,11]; or on the documents exchanged during the process [13,6,14]; or on both, as in models centered on the artifact 1 [8,4,10,5]. A disadvantage of these models is that they model the users of the process as second-class actors, when they are not simply ignored.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Guarded attribute grammars and publish/subscribe for implementing distributed collaborative business processes with high data availability

Tchendji

Tagueu

2021

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With the ever-increasing development of the Internet and the diversification of communication media, business processes of companies are increasingly collaborative and distributed. This contrasts with traditional solutions deployed for their management which are usually centralized, based on the activity flow or on the exchanged documents. Moreover, the users who are usually the main actors in collaborations are often relegated to second place. Recently, a distributed, data-driven and user-centric approach called Guarded Attributed Grammar (GAG) has been proposed for the modeling of such processes; it thus provides an answer to most of these limitations. In this paper, we present an approach for implementing business processes modeled using GAG in which communications are done by publish/subscribe with redirection of subscription (pub/sub-RS). The pub/sub-RS-which we propose-guarantees high data availability during the process execution by ensuring that an actor, perceived as a subscriber, will always receive a data he needs to perform a task as soon as it is produced. Moreover, if the data is semi-stuctured, and produced collaboratively and incrementally by several actors, its subscribers will be notified as soon as one of its components (a prefix) is produced simultaneously, as they will be subscribed in a transparent way to the remaining components (the suffix).RÉSUMÉ. Avec le développement toujours croissant de l'Internet et la diversification des moyens de communication, les processus métiers sont de plus en plus collaboratifs et distribués. Ceci contraste avec les solutions traditionnelles déployées pour leur gestion qui sont habituellement centralisées, basées sur le flux d'activités ou sur les documents échangés. Bien plus, les utilisateurs qui sont généralement les acteurs principaux dans la collaboration y sont souvent relégués au second rang. Récemment, une approche distribuée, centrée sur l'utilisateur et pilotée par les données appelée Grammaires Attribuées Gardées (GAG), a été proposée pour la modélisation de tels processus; elle fournit donc une réponse à la plupart de ces limitations. Dans ce papier, nous présentons une approche de mise en oeuvre de processus métiers modélisés à l'aide des GAG dans laquelle les communications se font par publish/subscribe avec redirection de souscriptions (pub/sub-RS). Le pub/sub-RS (que nous proposons) garantit une haute disponibilité des données pendant l'exécution d'un processus en assurant qu'un acteur (perçu comme un abonné) recevra toujours une donnée dont il a besoin pour effectuer une tâche dès qu'elle est produite. De plus, si la donnée est semi-structurée et produite collaborativement et incrémentalement par plusieurs acteurs, ses abonnés seront notifiés dès qu'une de ses composantes (un préfixe) est produite en même temps qu'ils seront abonnés de manière transparente aux composantes résiduelles (le suffixe).

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Section: Business Process Business Rule and Artifactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Guarded attribute grammars and publish/subscribe for implementing distributed collaborative business processes with high data availability

Tchendji

Tagueu

2021

SOCA

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“…In contrast to the communication model in [18], authors of [19] and [20] suggest using agent collaborations borrowed from artificial intelligence. Authors in [19] enhance WFs with "commitments," thus coordination is implemented using procedural specifications and commitments models.…”

Section: Document Oriented Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Authors in [19] enhance WFs with "commitments," thus coordination is implemented using procedural specifications and commitments models. Each commitment between a task sender (creditor) and a task executor (debtor) is specified as inputs, outputs, preconditions and results of the activity.…”

Section: Document Oriented Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Each commitment between a task sender (creditor) and a task executor (debtor) is specified as inputs, outputs, preconditions and results of the activity. Execution is implemented using Microsoft BizTalk (and BPEL) and BizTalk Orchestrations [19], [20]. Each participant (agent) has one or more roles within the WF (as well as each role may be assigned to different participants), the behavior of roles is specified as an orchestrated WF.…”

Section: Document Oriented Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems.

Alksnis

Asnina

Kirikova

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Abstract. In order to create innovative business products, share knowledge between people and businesses, or increase the control and quality of services, more and more often enterprise business processes involve in collaborations by delegating or providing some pieces of work to other enterprises. Necessity to cooperate in the cross-enterprise setting leads to Collaborative Business Processes (CBPs). The difference between CBPs and Business Processes (BPs) is in the decentralized coordination, flexible backward recovery, participants notification about the state, efficient adaptability to changes, presence of multiple information systems, and individual authorization settings. In the paper we consider a specific case of CBPs where multiple collaborating partners use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system of the same vendor. The vendor can see (e.g., monitor) the changes of data elements, but does not have explicit process awareness in the ERP system to support flow of activities in the crossenterprise setting. The paper also discusses different settings of cross-enterprise CBP and shows simplified enterprise models behind the vendor possibilities to positively impact collaborative processes. The restrictions of the vendor are implicit information flows in BP, diversity of ERP integrations with third party Information Systems (IS), the lack of mechanisms for monitoring BP instances, backward recovery, user notification about the current state and tasks, and inability to make explicit changes in customers' ISs.

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