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Behavior Based Integration of Composite Business Processes

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Business Process Management (BPM 2005)

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Integration of autonomous object-oriented systems requires the integration of object structure and object behavior. Past research in the integration of autonomous object-oriented systems has so far mainly addressed integration of object structure. During our research we have identified business process correspondences and have given proper integration operators. So far these integration operators are suited for creating generalized models but not for creating or dealing with the composition of business processes. In this paper we propose integration operators which are able to create, deal, and finalize composition between them. For modeling purposes we use the Unified Modeling Language (UML), especially activity diagrams.

This research was partially supported by the Australian Research Council under Discovery Grant DP0210654.

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  1. Advanced Computing Research Centre, Mawson Lakes, University of South Australia, SA, 5095, Adelaide, Australia

    Georg Grossmann, Yikai Ren, Michael Schrefl & Markus Stumptner

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2, 5612, Eindhoven, AZ, The Netherlands

    Wil M. P. van der Aalst

  2. CSE, University of New South Wales, Australia

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  3. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy

    Fabio Casati

  4. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY 10532, Hawthorne, USA

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Grossmann, G., Ren, Y., Schrefl, M., Stumptner, M. (2005). Behavior Based Integration of Composite Business Processes. In: van der Aalst, W.M.P., Benatallah, B., Casati, F., Curbera, F. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3649. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11538394_13

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