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Parallel Processing for Business Artifacts with Declarative Lifecycles

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 (OTM 2012)

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Abstract

The business artifact (a.k.a. business entity) approach to modeling and implementing business operations and processes is based on a holistic marriage of data and process and enables a factoring of business operations based on key business-relevant conceptual entities. The recently introduced Guard-Stage- Milestone (GSM) artifact meta-model provides a hierarchical and declarative basis for specifying artifact lifecycles, and is substantially influencing OMG’s emerging Case Management Modeling Notation standard. In previous papers one characterization of the operational semantics for GSM is based on the incremental, strictly serial firing of Event-Condition-Action (ECA) like rules. This paper develops a parallel algorithm equivalent to the sequential one in terms of externally observable characteristics. Optimizations and analysis for the parallel algorithm are discussed. This paper also introduces a simplification of the GSM meta-model that provides more flexibility and makes checking for well-formedness of GSM models simpler and more intuitive than in the preceding works on GSM.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara, USA

    Yutian Sun

  2. IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

    Yutian Sun, Richard Hull & Roman Vaculín

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Semantic Technology and Application Research Laboratory (STARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building G-10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. Research Centre for Automatic Control, School of Engineering in Information Technology, University of Lorraine, CNRS, Campus scientifique, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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  4. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

  5. Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm University, Germany

    Peter Dadam

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

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  7. HP Labs, Bristol, UK

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  8. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

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  9. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

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  10. ADVIS Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Isabel F. Cruz

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Sun, Y., Hull, R., Vaculín, R. (2012). Parallel Processing for Business Artifacts with Declarative Lifecycles. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012. OTM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33606-5_27

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