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Most existing cloud workflow modeling approaches focus on how to support business process customization for multiple tenants. But there are many factors to be considered in actual cloud workflow modeling, such as how to model interaction between different tenants’ business processes while protecting their privacy respectively, and how to facilitate the reuse of common process fragments for different stakeholder roles. To address these issues, this paper proposes a cloud workflow modeling framework using extended proclets. The framework provides a hierarchical management mechanism to isolate the private data of each tenant’s business process and adopts two-level-channel transmission protocol to explicitly model interaction between different tenants’ business processes. At last, a case study is carried out to illustrate its modeling capability and feasibility.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61170026, 61100017, the National Science and Technology Ministry of China under Grant Nos. 2012BAH25F02, 2013BAF02B01 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under Grant No. 2012211020203, 2042014kf0237.
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Huang, H., Peng, R., Feng, Z., Zhang, M. (2015). A Cloud Workflow Modeling Framework Using Extended Proclets. In: Bae, J., Suriadi, S., Wen, L. (eds) Asia Pacific Business Process Management. AP-BPM 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 219. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19509-4_2
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