Internet of Things Aware WS-BPEL Business Process

Dulce Domingos, Francisco Martins, Carlos Cândido

2013

Abstract

Business process can benefit from the deployment of the Internet of Things, since they can use sensor context information to optimize their execution and to react to emergent situations in real-time. Nowadays, the WSBPEL is the de-facto standard language used to define processes through the composition of web services. However, as this language is based on the service orchestration paradigm, it complicates the way process can use context information. This paper presents a WS-BPEL extension that includes context variables. These variables maintain sensor values. Their updates are done automatically by using the publish/subscribe paradigm. In addition, to support more reactive behaviours, this extension also includes the when-then construct. To realize this extension, we use the language transformation mechanisms, so it can be as much independent as possible from the process execution engine.

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Domingos D., Martins F. and Cândido C. (2013). Internet of Things Aware WS-BPEL Business Process . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-60-0, pages 505-512. DOI: 10.5220/0004449905050512


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@conference{iceis13,
author={Dulce Domingos and Francisco Martins and Carlos Cândido},
title={Internet of Things Aware WS-BPEL Business Process},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={505-512},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004449905050512},
isbn={978-989-8565-60-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Internet of Things Aware WS-BPEL Business Process
SN - 978-989-8565-60-0
AU - Domingos D.
AU - Martins F.
AU - Cândido C.
PY - 2013
SP - 505
EP - 512
DO - 10.5220/0004449905050512