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Business process management is tightly coupled with service-oriented architecture, as business processes orchestrate services for business collaboration at logical level. Given the complexity of business processes and the variety of users, it is a sought-after feature to show a business process with different views, so as to cater for the diverse interests, authority levels, etc., of users. This paper presents a framework named FlexView to support process abstraction and concretisation. A novel model is proposed to characterise the structural components of a business process and describe the relations between these components. Two algorithms are developed to formally illustrate the realisation of process abstraction and concretisation in compliance with the defined consistency rules. A prototype is also implemented with WS-BPEL to prove the applicability of the approach.
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Zhao, X., Liu, C., Sadiq, W., Kowalkiewicz, M., Yongchareon, S. (2009). WS-BPEL Business Process Abstraction and Concretisation. In: Zhou, X., Yokota, H., Deng, K., Liu, Q. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5463. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00887-0_49
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