Modeling Alternatives in Exception Executions

Golani, Mati; Gal, Avigdor; Toch, Eran

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78238-4_7

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“…Related work in the field of web services is provided, where a formalisation of Web service composition and the definition of compensation semantics in case of failures using the Event B method is proposed. However, although there is a variety of approaches to exception handling and fault tolerance in business process models as well (see Geist and Illibauer for a comprehensive literature review), the approaches basically either investigate exceptions and their recovery in the context of advanced transaction models, which are too rigid for workflow systems, or are not fully integrated and do not address exception handling in a strict formal, intelligible way . Also, the proprietary frameworks enforced by BPM systems make it hard for users to cope with divergent process definitions or unexpected situations; they might have to undertake actions outside their usual work routines, which notably poses security risks.…”

Section: Dynamic Business Process Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards functional safety and security for adaptive and flexible business processes

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Illibauer

et al. 2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Business process management (BPM) provides many benefits for a company including productivity, efficiency, compliance, risk management, consistency, repeatability, and measurability. Many of these aspects also ensure and improve functional safety, privacy, and security in process execution. However, managed business processes lack flexibility; ie, changing a business process requires more effort than ad hoc execution and adaptation. Thus, especially in small companies, the acceptance rate of managed business processes is low. So we claim that in current BPM approaches, the structuredness ensuring functional safety and security concepts contradicts with the objective for flexibility. The main goal of the AdaBPM project is to address this contradiction by providing a formal approach to handle advanced adaptations and exception handling in business processes. The technical objectives of the project include (1) the definition of a basic framework being capable of handling different levels of adaptivity and considering security and safety requirements at the same time, (2) a rigorous process specification language and model refinement methods,(3) static business process adaptations, and (4) dynamic (or ad hoc) adaptations. The result of our research is a general approach for flexible BPM combined with the possibility to nevertheless manage the process and define safety and security restrictions.

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Section: Dynamic Business Process Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%