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Architectural Elements of Decentralized Process Management Systems

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In a decentralized Process Management System, several process engines cooperate to execute a single process instance by using direct Machine-to-Machine communication and local coordination of the process flow. In this paper, we analyze the software architecture elements of a decentralized Process Management System. We explain the involved components, connectors, data, and the relationships between them. We also describe the state transitions of decentralized processes during execution.

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    We capitalize some terms in the text because they represent important components of a decentralized Process Management System, as explained in Sect. 3.

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    The possible process splitting methods and deployment procedures are not discussed in this paper as they are already explained in [8].

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The research described here was conducted as part of the EvoFrame project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (funding reference 02J21C101).

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Grunert, K., Shoferi, J.J., Gold, L., Rieder, W., Küpper, A. (2025). Architectural Elements of Decentralized Process Management Systems. In: Gaaloul, W., Sheng, M., Yu, Q., Yangui, S. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. ICSOC 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15404. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0805-8_26

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