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State-of-the-art of Standards
in Business Process Modeling and Execution

December 6, 2006
Ju, Jungmin
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Contents

} Introduction
} Research Axes
} Previous Works
} Current Challenges
} Future Direction
} Conclusion

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Introduction
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Business Process Standard

The automation and collaboration
between business organizations

Interoperable
business processes

Business Development
Business Notation for
interaction lifecycle of
operation BP behavior
protocols BP

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Scope

Content Modeling Specification

BPEL BPML
BPSS WPDL
RosettaNet PIP UML BPMN WS-CDL XPDL
WSCI WSFL
WSCL XLANG

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Motivation

BPSS BPEL
Wf-XML
BPML
WS-CDL WSCI
WSCL
XLANG WSFL
XPDL
Standards, who said standards?

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Objectives

To provide a genealogy To suggest the future

of business process direction of business
standard process

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Research Axes

Initiatives
Viewpoints about message exchange
Phase of business process development lifecycle
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Research Axes
} Different initiatives
OASIS
BPSS BPEL4WS

W3C
WSCL WSCI WS-CDL

BPMI
BPMN BPML

WfMC
XPDL WPDL Wf-XML

Others
OAGIS WS-I WSFL XLANG RosettaNet

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Research Axes
} Different viewpoints about message exchange
Organization A Organization B
Private Processes Public Processes Public Processes Private Processes

Private Process Public Process Public Process Private Process

PrA1

PrA2 PrA3 Pu1 message Pu2 PrB1

PrA4

Private Process PrB3

PrA5 Pu4 message Pu3 PrB2

PrA6
Legend
An Activity (n)
PrA7 Pu5 message Pu6 PrB4
Control flow
Service flow
Choreography Data flow
Orchestration Orchestration
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Research Axes
} Different phase of BP development lifecycle

Modeling Process Notation

UML BPMN PIP

Business Analyst

Process Definition
BPEL4WS
BPML
(Concrete)

XPDL WPDL PIP

Interaction Definition
BPEL4WS
BPML BPSS
IT Implementers (Abstract)

WSCL WSCI WS-CDL

Execution WSFL Wf-XML PIP

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Previous Works
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History of Business Process Standards

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

OASIS
ebBPSS ebBPSS2.0

WS-BPEL2.0
BPEL4WS1.1
(Draft)

IBM
Microsoft,
WSFL IBM, BEA
Microsoft
BPEL4WS
XLANG

Intalio BPMI
BPML BPML
BPMN
BPMN1.0
(OMG)

W3C
WSCI
HP
WS-CDL WS-CDL1.0
CDL WSCL
Legend
WfMC Wf-XML2.0 Emerging point
Wf-XML1.0 Wf-XML1.1
(draft) Direct effect

XPDL 1.0 XPDL 2.0 Indirect effect

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Classification Result

Viewpoints about message exchange

Orchestration Choreography
BPMI OMG BPMI OMG RosettaNet
Process
Phase of BP development lifecycle

BPMN UML BPMN UML PIP

notation
BPMI WfMC RosettaNet
BPML XPDL PIP
Process
definition OASIS
BPEL4WS

BPMI OASIS RosettaNet IBM Microsoft

BPML BPEL4WS PIP WSFL XLANG

Interaction
W3C WfMC
definition BPSS WSCI Wf-XML

WSCL WS-CDL

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Recent Challenges
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Cooperation between Standard Organizations

BPMN
OMG BPMI

ebBPSS
ebBPSS
BPMN

XPDL
BPML

WPDL BPMN

BPEL
WSCI

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Cooperation by Personal Researches

Comparison Transformation

BPSS BPEL
BPML BPEL
- From an ebXML BPSS Choreography to a
BPEL-based Implementation, J. Kim and C.
- A Comparison of BPML and BPEL4WS, J. Huemer
Mendling and M. Mller

BPEL WS-CDL
XPDL
- From Inter-Organizational Workflows to
Process Execution: Generating BPEL from
WS-CDL, J. Mendling and M. Hafner

BPMN XPDL
BPML BPEL
- Mapping from BPMN-formed Business
- A Comparison of XPDL, BPML and BPEL4WS, Processes to XPDL Business Processes, M.
R. Shapiro Jung, H. Kim, M. Jo, K. Tak, H. Cha, and
J. Son

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Limitation

Organization A Organization B
Private Processes Public Processes Public Processes Private Processes
Private Process Public Process Public Process Private Process
PrA1

PrA2 PrA3 Pu1 message Pu2 PrB1

PrA4

Existing standards are just focus on the logical information.

Private Process Pr B3
Is it enough?
PrA5 Pu4 message Pu3 PrB2

PrA6

PrA7 Pu5 message Pu6 PrB4

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Future Direction
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Extension for B2B Collaboration

e-business

Schema
Ontology

Software Package
- Title
- Version
Implementation
- OS
- Processor
- Language
- Memory size

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Airline Case Study

<xmlns:korbit=”http://www.korbit.org”>
<OntologyData> … </OntologyData>
<SoftPkg name=”Hermes” version=”1,0”>
<Title> Hermes </Title>
<Implementation>
<OS value=”WinNT”> …
<Processor value=”x86”> …
<Language value=”en”> …
<MemSize value=”512”> …
</Implementation>
</SoftPkg>
Travel Agent

Send
Receive Send Receive a Receive
Send Payment Request Receive
Flight Hold Confirmation Payment
Itinerary Option Payment Ticket
Schedule Request Number Option List
Request

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Conclusion
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Conclusion

} Summary
– To provide the history of business process
– To suggest the future direction of business process
• Logical information + Physical information

} Contribution
– To assist organizations to select proper business process
standards/applications
– To provide the future reference for the business process
initiatives

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Q&A

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