Bridging the gap between business process models and service-oriented architectures with reference to the grid environment

Khan, Zaheer; Odeh, Mohammed; McClatchey, Richard

Abstract

In recent years, organisations have been seeking technological solutions for enacting their business process models using ad-hoc and heuristic approaches. However, limited results have been obtained due to the expansion of business processes across geographical boundaries and the absence of structured methods, frameworks and/or Information Technology (IT) infrastructures to enact these processes. In an attempt to enact business process models using distributed technologies, we introduce a novel architectural framework to bridge the gap between business process models and Grid-aware Service-Oriented Architectures (GSOA). BPMSOA framework is aligned with the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach and is instantiated for role-based business process models [in particular Role Activity Diagramming (RAD)], using mobile process languages such as pi-ADL. The evaluation of the BPMSOA framework using the Submission process from the digital libraries domain has revealed that role-based business process models can be successfully enacted in GSOA environments with certain limitations. © 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Nov 2, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 17, 2016
• Journal: International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing
• Print ISSN: 1741-847X
• Electronic ISSN: 1741-8488
• Publisher: Inderscience
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 253-283
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGUC.2011.042943
• Keywords: grid aware utility services, RAD business process models, metamodels, pi-ADL, process enactment, model-driven engineering, model transformation
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/963158
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGUC.2011.042943
• Contract Date: Mar 17, 2016