Authors:
Markus Döhring
;
Lars Karg
;
Eicke Godehardt
and
Birgit Zimmermann
Affiliation:
SAP Research, Germany
Keyword(s):
Workflow management, Business rules, Complex event processing, Business process management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
For years, research has been devoted to the introduction of flexibility to enterprise information systems. There are corresponding concepts for mainly three established paradigms: workflow management, business rule management and complex event processing. It has however been indicated that the integration of the three paradigms with respect to their meta-models and execution principles yields significant potential for more efficient and flexible enterprise applications and that there is still a lack in conceptual and technical guidance
for their integration. The contribution of this work is a loosely coupled architecture integrating all three paradigms. This includes a clear definition of its building blocks together with the main realization challenges. In this context, an approach for assisting modelers in solving the question which paradigm should be used in which way for expressing a particular business aspect is presented.