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Draft for AKT July Workshop

Draft for AKT July Workshop. Jessica Chen-Burger. Current Work. Continue development of the Fundamental Business Process Modelling Language (FBPML) and its formal representation, including extension on execution semantics that conventional BPM lacks

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Draft for AKT July Workshop

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  1. Draft for AKT July Workshop Jessica Chen-Burger

  2. Current Work • Continue development of the Fundamental Business Process Modelling Language (FBPML) and its formal representation, including extension on execution semantics that conventional BPM lacks • Design the architecture of a generic component- and agent-based workflow system shell that suits most e-business workflows • Implement a generic workflow system shell • Survey relevant business process modelling and workflow methods • Investigate problems and discover opportunities in the domain of e-business

  3. Previous Work :Enterprise Modelling • Investigate and propose how different types of enterprise models may be combined in use to support business operations and system design • Investigate and propose how different enterprise models may be used together to provide input for business system development • Investigate and propose ways to improve knowledge sharing between different enterprise models • Investigate and propose ways to ensure the consistency of knowledge captured in different enterprise models

  4. Previous Work:Business Process Modelling • Developing the FBPML that is a BPML that • may be used by business personnel without much help from IT: i.e. visual, intuitive that allows informal description • may be used by software engineering: i.e. formal, precise, accurate that has execution semantics for WFS • is core to all business process modelling and is coherent to state of the art methods in the field • Developing a generic methodology for building BPMs

  5. Points for Forward Work:Problems and Opportunities in E-Business • There is an increasing demand for knowledge-based workflow systems that has its own objectives and knows business rules, procedures, rationale and can make business decisions and carry out work autonomously • In e-business, workflow system must be able to communicate, negotiate, make decisions and do deals autonomously • Conventional workflow system that is one big system is no longer suitable, but should be component- and/or agent-based that is flexible and can react to changes quickly • Workflow systems must enable and support frequent change of business procedures while maintain stability of business operations

  6. Workflow System - 1 Workflow System - 2 Process Model - 1 Process Model - 2 Virtual Organisations with Workflow Systems Intelligent Agent – 2a Intelligent Agent - 2 Internal Broker Y Intelligent Agent - m Intelligent Agent - n Internal Broker X Broker Intelligent Agent - 1 Constraint Solver - 1 Intelligent Agent – 1a Constraint Solver - 2 Organisation A Organisation B

  7. Possible Future Work:Towards a Distributed Environment • Extension on direct mapping between BPMs and workflow systems (WFS) • Extension on dynamic generation of business processes and workflows while maintain the stability of WFS • Extension of purpose-driven knowledge-based visualisation techniques • Reconcile and formalise shared communication patterns between workflow systems and agents, e.g. using XML, RDF, ebXML • Knowledge based workflow systems: autonomous knowledge creation, negotiation and analysis • Studies on system behaviours of large number of (semi-) autonomous workflow agents

  8. Possible Interactions with other groups • Link to goal-orient business process modelling communities • Methods, formal work, automatic design • Link to agent community • Component based design • Agent-based architecture • Link to web services BPM and Communication pattern standards • W3C • UN EDIFACT, e.g. WSFL, WSDL, ebXML • Link to adaptive workflow • Link to knowledge management using enterprise modelling techniques

  9. References • Workflow Handbook 1997 (Intro.) 2001 • ebXML documents, “A Catalogue of Common Business Processes”, and other relevant ebXML documents • IDEF3 methodology • Workflow Survey, Feb 2002 • “Accelerating Development with Agent Components”, IEEE Computer May 2001. • PSL • Web Services Flow Language WSFL, Web Services Definition Language WSDL

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