UniFlexView: A unified framework for consistent construction of BPMN and BPEL process views

Abstract

Process view technologies allow organizations to create different granularity levels of abstraction of their business processes, therefore enabling a more effective business process management, analysis, interoperation, and privacy controls. Existing research proposed view construction and abstraction techniques for block-based (ie, BPEL) and graph-based (ie, BPMN) process models.However, the existing techniques treat each type of the two types of models separately.Especially, this brings in challenges for achieving a consistent process view for a BPEL model that derives from a BPMN model. In this paper, we propose a unified framework, namely UniFlexView, for supporting automatic and consistent process view construction. With our framework, process modelers can use our proposed View Definition Language to specify their view construction requirements disregarding the types of process models. Our UniFlexView's system prototype has been developed as a proof of concept and demonstration of the usability and feasibility of our framework.

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“…Literature [11] proposes an alternative mean to extract the existing SOA services from the BPEL flow and refactor them into a set of relevant microservices using the decomposition pattern. To adapt to the flexible business process model in the process reorganization, literature [12] proposes a unified framework called UniFlexView, which does not distinguish between BPEL and BPMN, so that staff only need to focus on how to model, regardless of the type of process model.…”

Simplifying complex business process models through abstraction and Facilitating their reusability through business process model matching

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“…On the other hand, in the work by Polyvyanyy [130] and Polyvyanyy et al [132], the authors suggest that the user specifies manually the tasks or the collection of tasks that need to be generalized and then the abstraction rules are triggered (Q-type, S-type, P-type and R-type abstraction). Also, Yongchareon et al [206] suggest a unified framework that enables users to define their process views requirements, using the View Definition Language, disregarding the types of process models (BPEL and BPMN). Similarly, Kammerer et al [210] suggest a descriptive language that enables the definition of abstractions on process models in order to obtain process model views.…”

“…, Köpke et al[139], Wurm et al[177], Fatima, B., & Shahzad[176], Wang et al[174], Yongchareon et al[206], Khlif and Ben-Abdallah[208], Kchaou et al[207] as well as older ones, such as the works by Liu and Shen[132], Mafazi et al[138], Meyer and Weske[135],…”