Title :
A Service-Oriented Visual Business Process Modeling Language
Author :
Xing, Shaomin ; Zhou, Bosheng ; Chen, Tianying
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Beihang Univ., Beijing
Abstract :
A new service-oriented visual business process modeling language VPML-S was proposed. The meta-model for VPML-S was designed by using UML class diagram, and its formal model was established on this basis. The service-oriented function provided by service element, the reuse mechanism between business processes provided by nested sub process element, the collaboration mechanism between business processes provided by pipeline element and the interoperability mechanism between VPML-S processes and processes established by other languages were analyzed and evaluated. Finally, an online shopping example was presented to demonstrate the efficiency of VPML-S for business process reuse, collaboration and interoperability in service-oriented environment.
Keywords :
business process re-engineering; high level languages; meta data; open systems; UML class diagram; VPML-S; business process reuse; collaboration mechanism; formal model; interoperability; meta-model; pipeline element; service element; service-oriented architecture; visual business process modeling language; Computer science; Databases; Formal languages; Logic; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Pipelines; Service oriented architecture; Software design; Unified modeling language; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.1966
