Communication Abstractions for Distributed Business Processes

Aldred, Lachlan J. and van der Aalst, Wil M.P. and Dumas, Marlon and ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M (2007) Communication Abstractions for Distributed Business Processes. In Proceedings International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Trondheim, Norway.

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Abstract

Languages for business process definition generally suffer from myopic approaches to capturing communication between distributed processes. Effective communication between processes requires: support for conversations involving interrelated interactions spread over time; ability to select and group messages based on their content, regardless of format and transport technology; and resolving contention between processes or tasks for common sets of messages. This paper presents a set of communication abstractions that provide a ``glue'' between the process layer and the middleware. The paper also reports on an implementation of these abstractions and an experimental evaluation.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Status:	Published
Subjects:	280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280100 Information Systems > 280112 Information Systems Development Methodologies
ID Code:	7966
Deposited By:	Dumas, Marlon
Deposited On:	04 June 2007
Alternative Locations:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72988-4_29
Copyright Owner:	Copyright 2007 Springer
Copyright Statement:	This is the author-version of the work. Conference proceedings published, by Springer Verlag, will be available via SpringerLink. http://www.springerlink.com SpringerLink