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A Framework for Realizing Artifact-Centric Business Processes in Service-Oriented Architecture

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Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2012)

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Over the past few years, the artifact-centric approach to workflow modeling has been beneficially evidenced for both academic and industrial researches. This approach not only provides a rich insight to key business data and their evolution through business processes, but also allows business and IT stakeholders to have a single unified view of the processes. There are several studies on the modeling and its theoretical aspects; however, the possible realization of this approach in a particular technology is still in its fancy stage. Recently, there exist proposals to achieve such realization by converting from artifact-centric model to activity-centric model that can be implemented on existing workflow management systems. We argue that this approach has several drawbacks as the transformation, which is unidirectional, poses loss of information. In this paper, we propose a framework for the realization of artifact-centric business processes in service-oriented architecture achieving a fully automated mechanism that can realize the artifact-centric model without performing model transformation. A comprehensive discussion and comparison of our framework and other existing works are also presented.

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  1. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia

    Kan Ngamakeur, Sira Yongchareon & Chengfei Liu

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, 151747, Seoul, South Korea

    Sang-goo Lee

  2. Computer School, Wuhan University, Luo-jia-shan, Wuchang, 430081, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

    Zhiyong Peng

  3. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  4. Department of Computer Science, Kangwon National University, 192-1, Hyoja2-Dong, Chuncheon, 200701, Kangwon, South Korea

    Yang-Sae Moon

  5. Institute for Computer Science and Business Information, University of Duisburg-Essen, Schützenbahn 70, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

  6. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, 52 Naesudong-ro, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju, 4072, Chungbuk, South Korea

    Jaesoo Yoo

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Ngamakeur, K., Yongchareon, S., Liu, C. (2012). A Framework for Realizing Artifact-Centric Business Processes in Service-Oriented Architecture. In: Lee, Sg., Peng, Z., Zhou, X., Moon, YS., Unland, R., Yoo, J. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7238. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29038-1_7

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