Modeling interorganizational workflows with XML nets

Lenz, Kirsten

doi:10.1109/hicss.2001.927083

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Second, Wf-XML only allows for loose integration as described in Section 3. XRL is also different from XML nets [34] and SGML nets [48] in that, although both approaches use XML-based high-level nets, they do not express the control flow (i.e., the Petri-net structure itself) in XML. Therefore, they are less suitable for inter-organizational workflows.…”

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XML–Based Schema Definition for Support of Interorganizational Workflow

Aalst

Kumar

2003

Information Systems Research

131

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The full potential of the web as a medium for electronic commerce can be realized only when multiple partners in a supply chain can route information among themselves in a seamless way. Commerce on the Internet is still far from being "friction-free" because business partners cannot exchange information about their business processes in an automated manner. In this paper, we propose the design for an eXchangeable Routing Language (XRL) using XML syntax. XML (eXtendible Markup Language) is a means for trading partners to exchange business data electronically. The novel contribution of our work is to show how XML can also be used to describe workflow process schemas to support flexible routing of documents in the Internet environment. The design of XRL is grounded in Petri nets, which is a wellknown formalism. By using this formalism, it is possible to analyze correctness and performance of workflows described in XRL. Architectures to facilitate inter-operation through loose and tight integration are also discussed. Examples illustrate how this approach can be used for implementing interorganizational electronic commerce applications. As a proof of concept we have also developed XRL/flower, a prototype implementation of a workflow management system based on XRL.

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XML–Based Schema Definition for Support of Interorganizational Workflow

Aalst

Kumar

2003

Information Systems Research

131

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“…Although there is a mapping between BPMN 2.0 and BPEL it is incomplete and suffers from several issues [24]. The work of [25] uses XML nets, a Petri-net-based process modelling approach which is meant to be executable. It uses a graphical language, which maps to a DTD (XML Document Type Definition) to represent the data required by the process, and the data manipulations are graphically shown in the XML net.…”

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Linking Data and BPMN Processes to Achieve Executable Models

Giacomo

Oriol

Estañol

et al. 2017

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. We describe a formally well founded approach to link data and processes conceptually, based on adopting UML class diagrams to represent data, and BPMN to represent the process. The UML class diagram together with a set of additional process variables, called Artifact, form the information model of the process. All activities of the BPMN process refer to such an information model by means of OCL operation contracts. We show that the resulting semantics while abstract is fully executable. We also provide an implementation of the executor.

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“…There were also a lot of researches in that they adopt XML for process definition and Petri Net for process simulation [2,3]. XML-net is an XMLbased specification language directly executable by its workflow engine [43]. WfMC published the draft version of XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) [65].…”

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confidence: 99%