A component abstraction for business processes. (1st January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barat, Souvik; Kulkarni, Vinay
• Is Part Of: International journal of business process integration and management. Volume 6:Number 1(2012)
• Page Start: 29
• Page End: 40
• Publication Date: 2012-01-01
• Subjects: business process component -- business process family -- business process reuse; Business -- Computer networks -- Periodicals; Industrial management -- Periodicals; 658.054605
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-8763

Abstract

With continued increase in business dynamics, it is becoming increasingly harder to deliver purpose-specific business system in the ever-shrinking window of opportunity. As business systems for the same intent tend to be similar but never the same, they have considerable overlap with well-defined differences. Software product line engineering techniques attempt to address this problem for software artefacts. Separation of business process concerns from application functionality, as advocated in process centric application development, demands solution on similar lines for business processes too. To this effect, we propose an abstraction for business processes that addresses composition, variability and resolution in a unified manner. We present the abstraction, its model-based realisation, and illustration with an example.