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Subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM) introduces a new technique for process modeling that emphasizes the importance of the actors in business processes (subjects) and gives a balanced consideration to subjects, their actions, and goals. Because of the formal foundation and the clear declaration of subjects, S-BPM allows the distributed modeling and execution of processes, without losing the capability to verify the compatibility of processes.
Executing cooperating processes in a distributed system also poses new requirements to the communication middleware, which is responsible for routing messages from one process instance to a remote peer process instance. In this paper, we describe an engine to execute S-BPM process choreographies. It is based on subject-oriented process modeling and a publish/subscribe middleware as communication basis. Our process engine also runs on mobile devices.
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Aitenbichler, E., Borgert, S., Mühlhäuser, M. (2011). Distributed Execution of S-BPM Business Processes. In: Fleischmann, A., Schmidt, W., Singer, R., Seese, D. (eds) Subject-Oriented Business Process Management. S-BPM ONE 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23135-3_2
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