UniFlexView: A unified framework for consistent construction of BPMN and BPEL process views. (17th December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yongchareon, Sira; Liu, Chengfei; Zhao, Xiaohui
• Is Part Of: Concurrency and computation. Volume 32:Number 11(2020)
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• Publication Date: 2019-12-17
• Subjects: business process models -- process model abstraction -- process views -- workflow management; Parallel processing (Electronic computers) -- Periodicals; Parallel computers -- Periodicals; 004.35
• DOI: 10.1002/cpe.5646
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-0626

Abstract

Summary : Process view technologies allow organizations to create different granularity levels of abstraction of their business processes, therefore enabling a more effective business process management, analysis, interoperation, and privacy controls. Existing research proposed view construction and abstraction techniques for block‐based (ie, BPEL) and graph‐based (ie, BPMN) process models. However, the existing techniques treat each type of the two types of models separately. Especially, this brings in challenges for achieving a consistent process view for a BPEL model that derives from a BPMN model. In this paper, we propose a unified framework, namely UniFlexView, for supporting automatic and consistent process view construction. With our framework, process modelers can use our proposed View Definition Language to specify their view construction requirements disregarding the types of process models. Our UniFlexView's system prototype has been developed as a proof of concept and demonstration of the usability and feasibility of our framework.