A Collaborative Framework for Exception Handling in Business Process Execution

Web services can be managed and coordinated by business processes while computer application systems are more and more based on Internet. Services binding in these business processes evolve autonomously and their coupling is highly loose. Accordingly, exception handling of business processes execution under the Internet environment is one key to ensure the reliability of application systems. In this paper, we analyze the types of exceptions in business process execution and propose several corresponding handling strategies. We also analyze the role of chorographic which business process plays during execution and present a collaborative approach for exception handling in business process execution by cooperative works. In our opinion, cooperative works are based on strategies ontology which is related to different types of exception. We describe the approach and illustrate it with examples to show its functions. The major concern addressed by our approach is the support to anticipated and unexpected exceptions handling with cooperative works.