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Business processes (BPs) can be designed using a variety of modeling languages and executed in different systems. In most BPM applications, the semantics of BPs needed for runtime management is often scattered across BP models, execution engines, and auxiliary stores of workflow systems. The inability to capture such semantics in BP models is the root cause for many BPM challenges. In this paper, an automated tool SeGA for wrapping BPs is developed. We demonstrate that SeGA provides a simple yet general framework for runtime querying and monitoring BP executions cross different BP management systems.
Supported in part by NSF grant IIS-0812578 and grants from IBM and Bosch.
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Sun, Y., Xu, W., Su, J., Yang, J. (2012). SeGA: A Mediator for Artifact-Centric Business Processes. In: Herrero, P., Panetto, H., Meersman, R., Dillon, T. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 Workshops. OTM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7567. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33618-8_87
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