BPMN Extensions for Decentralized Execution and Monitoring of Business Processes

Jonas Anseeuw, Gregory Van Seghbroeck, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck

2015

Abstract

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers are further expanding their offering by growing into the space of business process outsourcing (BPO). Therefore, the SaaS provider wants to administer and manage the business process steps according to a service level agreement. Outsourcing of business processes results in decentralized business workflows. However, current business process modeling languages, e.g. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), are based highly on a centralized execution model and current BPMN engines offer limited constructs for federation and decentralized execution. To guarantee execution of business processes according to a service level agreement, different parties involved in a federated workflow must be able to inspect the state of external workflows. This requires advanced inspection interfaces and monitoring facilities. Current business process modeling languages must thus be extended to support monitoring in the specification, support modeling and support deployment of decentralized workflows. In this paper, correlation and monitoring extensions for BPMN are described. These extensions to BPMN are described such that the existing specification can still be used as is in a backwards compatible way.

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Anseeuw J., Van Seghbroeck G., Volckaert B. and De Turck F. (2015). BPMN Extensions for Decentralized Execution and Monitoring of Business Processes . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-104-5, pages 304-309. DOI: 10.5220/0005492303040309


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@conference{closer15,
author={Jonas Anseeuw and Gregory Van Seghbroeck and Bruno Volckaert and Filip De Turck},
title={BPMN Extensions for Decentralized Execution and Monitoring of Business Processes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2015},
pages={304-309},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005492303040309},
isbn={978-989-758-104-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - BPMN Extensions for Decentralized Execution and Monitoring of Business Processes
SN - 978-989-758-104-5
AU - Anseeuw J.
AU - Van Seghbroeck G.
AU - Volckaert B.
AU - De Turck F.
PY - 2015
SP - 304
EP - 309
DO - 10.5220/0005492303040309