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Engineering and Integrating Business Processes

Engineering and Integrating Business Processes. Rik Eshuis. Keywords. Research topics. Process Integration Process Composition Process Adaptation Process Views Process Engineering Process Transformations Process Verification. Motivation process integration.

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Engineering and Integrating Business Processes

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  1. Engineering and Integrating Business Processes Rik Eshuis

  2. Keywords....

  3. Research topics Process Integration • Process Composition • Process Adaptation • Process Views Process Engineering • Process Transformations • Process Verification

  4. Motivation process integration • Organizations collaborate more and more in networks • Networks are agile and process-oriented • Each network partner has business process • Partners exchange data, but also process status

  5. Context • Business partners in agile networks need to integrate their business processes • supply chains, outsourcing, ... • Process Composition: how can partner business processes be coordinated? • Process Adaptation: how can mismatches between partner processes be resolved? • Process Views: how can partners collaborate, yet hide internal business details from each other?

  6. Process Composition • How to combine different business processes? • Analyse data flow dependencies between processes • Convert dependencies into block-structured control flow (BPEL) • Used in IST CrossWork project

  7. Example R. Eshuis and P. Grefen. Composing Services into Structured Processes. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 18(2):309-337, 2009

  8. Current state • Solution for non-interacting processes • each process aggregates into web service • Solution for interacting processes under development • Focus on control flow • Future topics: full automation, data flow, dynamic coordination, ...

  9. Process Adaptation (PhD project Ricardo) • Resolve behavioural incompatibilities between interacting business processes Minimal Adaptor R. Seguel, R. Eshuis and P. Grefen. Generating Minimal Protocol Adaptors for Loosely Coupled Services. In Proc. IEEE ICWS 2010, 2010. To appear

  10. Current state • Solution for interacting processes • asynchronous/synchronous communication • application: supply/demain chain management • Focus on efficiency (minimal adaptors) • Future topics: adaptor selection, deployment of adaptors, ...

  11. Process Views • View is public window on private business process • Maintain balance between interest of owner and client

  12. Example process view

  13. Constructing process views R. Eshuis and P. Grefen. Constructing Customized Process Views. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 64(2):419-438, 2008.

  14. Current state • Process views for service outsourcing (with Alex Norta) • Future work: non-block-structured processes, interacting processes, incorporating data (ontologies), negotiation, ...

  15. Process engineering • How to construct dependable process models? • Process transformation • Process verification

  16. Process Transformation • Mapping from Petri nets to statecharts • Efficient yet correct • Structure-preserving • Behaviour-preserving • Realized as model transformation and Java program • Application: net-like models (UML, BPMN)

  17. Example ???

  18. Another example AND/OR tree

  19. Translation issues • Preserve syntactic structure • place  BASIC node • transition  hyperedge • no counterpart of statechart AND/OR tree • Problems • How to ensure proper nesting of AND nodes? • How to determine border of AND/OR nodes? R. Eshuis. Translating Safe Petri Nets to Statecharts in a Structure-Preserving Way. In A. Cavalcanti, D. Dams, editors. Proc. Formal Methods 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5850, pages 239-255, Springer, 2009

  20. Current state • Model-driven + Java implementation • Future work: extend with data, apply to UML, ...

  21. Process Verification • Analyse Business Process Models • Focus on diagnosis of errors and giving useful feedback R. Eshuis and A. Kumar. An integer programming based approach for verification and diagnosis of workflows. Data & Knowledge Engineering 69(8):816-835,2010 R. Eshuis and A. Kumar. An integer programming based approach for verification and diagnosis of workflows. Data & Knowledge Engineering 69(8):816-835,2010

  22. Conclusion • Research approach: • model driven, • design oriented, • formal • engineering • Research topics: • cross-organizational BPM • engineering BPM models

  23. Questions?

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