Authors:
Amirreza Tahamtan
1
;
Christian Oesterle
1
;
A Min Tjoa
1
and
Abdelkader Hameurlain
2
Affiliations:
1
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
;
2
University Paul Sabatier, France
Keyword(s):
WS-BPEL, Extension, Time, Temporal management, Business process, Design, Execution, Monitoring.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Engineering Information System
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Mobile Software and Services
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Services Science
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telecommunications
;
Web Services
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Temporal management and assurance of temporal compatibility is an important quality criteria for processes within and across organizations. Temporal conformance increases QoS and reduces process execution costs. WS-BPEL as the accpetd industry standard lacks sufficient temporal management capabilities. In this paper we introduce BPEL-TIME, a WS-BPEL extension for time management purposes. It allows the definition, execution and monitoring of business processes with time management capabilities. This extension makes a fixed, variable and probabilistic representation of temporal constraints possible and checks if the model is temporally compliant. Our approach avoids temporal failures by the prediction of the future temporal behavior of business processes.