The organizational structures-based workflow participant definition, which appoints activity executors according to user's role, department or ID, is widely used in commercial workflow management systems presently. This approach lacks of flexible mechanisms for complex participants assignment. This paper describes a novel approach (ARDE) to define workflow participants. ARDE defines participant from four facets, namely assignment, rule, duration and exception. Assignment uses an SQL-like language to define the qualification that activity participants must meet. Rule expresses a regulation to choose user(s) from all of qualified participants to undertake the task at runtime. The regulation considers the use's context, including workload, online and vacancy, etc. Duration is the interval during which the task starts and completes. Exception represents the handling strategy when a task cannot be finished in the planned duration. In order to enforce the expression capacity, an organizational meta-model, several built-in functions and an entity outdata are introduced in this article
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Workflow management systems facilitate the everyday operation of business processes by taking care of the logistic control of work. In contrast to traditional information systems, they attempt to support frequent changes of the workflows at hand. Therefore, the need for analysis methods to verify the correctness of workflows is becoming more prominent. In this paper, we present a method for correctness verification of synchronization based workflow model. Moreover, the method can give a counterexample when an error exists in model, this will help to improve the model
{"title":"Correctness verification of synchronization based workflow model","authors":"Cai Jian, Zhao Wen, Zhang Shikun, Wan Lifu","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2005.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2005.43","url":null,"abstract":"Workflow management systems facilitate the everyday operation of business processes by taking care of the logistic control of work. In contrast to traditional information systems, they attempt to support frequent changes of the workflows at hand. Therefore, the need for analysis methods to verify the correctness of workflows is becoming more prominent. In this paper, we present a method for correctness verification of synchronization based workflow model. Moreover, the method can give a counterexample when an error exists in model, this will help to improve the model","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114193223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1504/IJEB.2006.010867
Shyh-Kwei Chen, H. Lei, M. Wahler, Henry Chang, K. Bhaskaran, J. H. Frank
As XML formats have been widely adopted for representing business documents both within and across enterprises, XML to XML translation becomes a common and critical component for business process integration. Due to limitations of popular approaches such as XSLT for XML translations, we designed a model driven development framework for XML to XML translation with the additional benefits of code re-use and strong built-in model validation. We further applied this framework to the domain of business performance management, converting documents from human-readable XML format to machine-readable XMI format
{"title":"A model driven XML transformation framework for business performance management","authors":"Shyh-Kwei Chen, H. Lei, M. Wahler, Henry Chang, K. Bhaskaran, J. H. Frank","doi":"10.1504/IJEB.2006.010867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEB.2006.010867","url":null,"abstract":"As XML formats have been widely adopted for representing business documents both within and across enterprises, XML to XML translation becomes a common and critical component for business process integration. Due to limitations of popular approaches such as XSLT for XML translations, we designed a model driven development framework for XML to XML translation with the additional benefits of code re-use and strong built-in model validation. We further applied this framework to the domain of business performance management, converting documents from human-readable XML format to machine-readable XMI format","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115268675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Different customer requirements in combination with technological advances caused mainly by the Internet enable new or improved customer-driven business processes. The management of such processes requires a deep but flexible integration of enterprises. In this context new forms of cooperation like e-collaboration, describing the efficient and effective collaboration of participants in a value-added network, arise. In order to manage customer-driven business processes across such networks, existing concepts and tools for business process management need to be adapted and extended. For that purpose an e-collaboration architecture is presented in this paper, which shows how cross-enterprise, customer-driven processes can be planned, implemented and controlled in a value-added network. Another important building block is the life-cycle-model that serves as a guideline for the process-oriented creation and operation of cooperations towards a common customer-driven production and bundling of goods and services
{"title":"Enabling customer-driven processes in value-added networks using an architecture for e-collaboration","authors":"O. Adam, Pavlina Chikova, A. Hofer","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2005.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2005.61","url":null,"abstract":"Different customer requirements in combination with technological advances caused mainly by the Internet enable new or improved customer-driven business processes. The management of such processes requires a deep but flexible integration of enterprises. In this context new forms of cooperation like e-collaboration, describing the efficient and effective collaboration of participants in a value-added network, arise. In order to manage customer-driven business processes across such networks, existing concepts and tools for business process management need to be adapted and extended. For that purpose an e-collaboration architecture is presented in this paper, which shows how cross-enterprise, customer-driven processes can be planned, implemented and controlled in a value-added network. Another important building block is the life-cycle-model that serves as a guideline for the process-oriented creation and operation of cooperations towards a common customer-driven production and bundling of goods and services","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123785187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL) provides a common standard for modeling and sharing business processes across enterprises via Web services. Business applications that handle different operations within a business process usually share computational capacity. In this paper, we provide a method to allocate computational capacity across these applications. Our method takes the following factors into consideration: random arrivals of business process instances, service time fluctuations of business applications, quality of service (QoS) requirements, and the composition structure of the business process specified by BPEL. Using heavy traffic approximations, we formulate and solve the capacity allocation problem as a nonlinear optimization problem with QoS constraints; our method also gives a pessimistic bound on the maximum sustainable request rate the system can support
{"title":"Capacity allocation for business processes with QoS requirements: a heavy traffic approach","authors":"Pu Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2005.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2005.36","url":null,"abstract":"The Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL) provides a common standard for modeling and sharing business processes across enterprises via Web services. Business applications that handle different operations within a business process usually share computational capacity. In this paper, we provide a method to allocate computational capacity across these applications. Our method takes the following factors into consideration: random arrivals of business process instances, service time fluctuations of business applications, quality of service (QoS) requirements, and the composition structure of the business process specified by BPEL. Using heavy traffic approximations, we formulate and solve the capacity allocation problem as a nonlinear optimization problem with QoS constraints; our method also gives a pessimistic bound on the maximum sustainable request rate the system can support","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"38 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114039820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SophiNode uses P2P infrastructure to realize a decentralized e-commerce application. And service advertisement forwarding is an interesting topic in SophiNode. We discuss speed, scope and overhead feature of a service discovery system, and put forward a rumor-spreading model to improve these features. We try to simulate rumor-spreading process of human life, and avoid unnecessary duplicated advertisement overhead. Two key concepts are adopted: forwarding probability and forwarding weight. The former is in inverse proportion with service advertisement popularity; so that popular advertisements are filtered while rare advertisements are wildly spread. The later helps to determine the next hop when forwarding an advertisement. Our simulation shows that after rumor-spreading model is adopted, speed and scope feature of service query is improved while overhead feature keeps steady
{"title":"A rumor-spreading model of service advertisement forwarding in decentralized e-commerce","authors":"Dalu Zhang, Fang Gao, Zhe Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2005.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2005.16","url":null,"abstract":"SophiNode uses P2P infrastructure to realize a decentralized e-commerce application. And service advertisement forwarding is an interesting topic in SophiNode. We discuss speed, scope and overhead feature of a service discovery system, and put forward a rumor-spreading model to improve these features. We try to simulate rumor-spreading process of human life, and avoid unnecessary duplicated advertisement overhead. Two key concepts are adopted: forwarding probability and forwarding weight. The former is in inverse proportion with service advertisement popularity; so that popular advertisements are filtered while rare advertisements are wildly spread. The later helps to determine the next hop when forwarding an advertisement. Our simulation shows that after rumor-spreading model is adopted, speed and scope feature of service query is improved while overhead feature keeps steady","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131480461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Service-oriented computing (SOC) is thought to be an effective way to tackle complex Web-based business collaborations between enterprises in e-business environment, but in practice it didn't reach the expectation. Current researches mainly focus on technological aspects, such as service publication, discovery, binding, and composition, etc, while lack in effective ways to support service identification and design before they are to be published and discovered by other enterprises. This paper analyzes the relationships between business service and inter-/intra-enterprise business processes, discusses what kind of properties a "good" service should have, and accordingly presents a service normal form (SNF) and the corresponding service normalization method. In this method, the way of how to identify normalized services from business process models, and how to create close mapping between services and legacy component-based information systems, are emphatically discussed. This method provides great significance to help enterprises identifying and designing valuable business services
{"title":"Normal forms and normalized design method for business service","authors":"Zhongjie Wang, Xiaofei Xu, D. Zhan","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2005.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2005.91","url":null,"abstract":"Service-oriented computing (SOC) is thought to be an effective way to tackle complex Web-based business collaborations between enterprises in e-business environment, but in practice it didn't reach the expectation. Current researches mainly focus on technological aspects, such as service publication, discovery, binding, and composition, etc, while lack in effective ways to support service identification and design before they are to be published and discovered by other enterprises. This paper analyzes the relationships between business service and inter-/intra-enterprise business processes, discusses what kind of properties a \"good\" service should have, and accordingly presents a service normal form (SNF) and the corresponding service normalization method. In this method, the way of how to identify normalized services from business process models, and how to create close mapping between services and legacy component-based information systems, are emphatically discussed. This method provides great significance to help enterprises identifying and designing valuable business services","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"54 76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133709052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper presents a hybrid system that integrates case-based reasoning (CBR) and rule-based reasoning (RBR) supported by data warehouse for customer service management (CSM). Cases represented by XML are extracted into data warehouse after data cleaning, integration, selection, and transformation. By integrating OLAP with data mining based on rough set theory in multidimensional databases, online analytical mining in different granularity provides CBR with the flexibility to select the desired solutions for customers. Examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed system
{"title":"An integrated rule-based and case-based reasoning system for customer service management","authors":"L. An, Jianyuan Yan, Ling-yun Tong","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2005.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2005.28","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a hybrid system that integrates case-based reasoning (CBR) and rule-based reasoning (RBR) supported by data warehouse for customer service management (CSM). Cases represented by XML are extracted into data warehouse after data cleaning, integration, selection, and transformation. By integrating OLAP with data mining based on rough set theory in multidimensional databases, online analytical mining in different granularity provides CBR with the flexibility to select the desired solutions for customers. Examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed system","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"127 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133876229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhaoxia Lu, Guangzhou Zeng, Yaping Zhong, Gongping Yang
Reliability as well as fault-tolerance is a fundamental issue for the development of robust mobile agent system. A number of research works is done in these areas. Some researchers adopt the use of spatial replication based approach since it can reduce blocking possibility of mobile agent execution. Unfortunately, this fault-tolerance scheme is not cost effective because it incurs great costs of time and communication, which leads to increased system load. In this paper, we present a dynamic stage construction protocol for mobile agent execution to maintain high performance without being forced to make tradeoffs in reliability. The protocol schedules task execution dynamically according to the execution ability of visited nodes, hence avoid the unnecessary revisit to them at latter stage and cut down total execution time. On the other hand, it has specific node selection strategy to guarantee reliability, decrease communication overhead between two consecutive stages and improve efficiency
{"title":"Enable efficient stage construction for replication based fault-tolerant execution of mobile agent","authors":"Zhaoxia Lu, Guangzhou Zeng, Yaping Zhong, Gongping Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2005.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2005.60","url":null,"abstract":"Reliability as well as fault-tolerance is a fundamental issue for the development of robust mobile agent system. A number of research works is done in these areas. Some researchers adopt the use of spatial replication based approach since it can reduce blocking possibility of mobile agent execution. Unfortunately, this fault-tolerance scheme is not cost effective because it incurs great costs of time and communication, which leads to increased system load. In this paper, we present a dynamic stage construction protocol for mobile agent execution to maintain high performance without being forced to make tradeoffs in reliability. The protocol schedules task execution dynamically according to the execution ability of visited nodes, hence avoid the unnecessary revisit to them at latter stage and cut down total execution time. On the other hand, it has specific node selection strategy to guarantee reliability, decrease communication overhead between two consecutive stages and improve efficiency","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125047871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is expected to be widely used in the future, as it can be embedded into everyday items as RFID tags. Using RFID technology, enterprises can share real-time data about products with trade partners over the Internet. Application service provider (ASP) provides services for clients in a central managing way by Internet. Users who subscribe the ASP service do not need to pay much attention about the deployment, integration, access, training, management, and support of applications, because all these are done by ASP. According to the difficulties of lacking of funds and expertise for implementing RFID and complicated RFID system construction the enterprises encountered, we focus on a solution to integrate RFID system with enterprise application system based on ASP model
无线射频识别(RFID)可以作为RFID标签嵌入到日常用品中，有望在未来得到广泛应用。利用RFID技术，企业可以通过互联网与贸易伙伴共享产品的实时数据。ASP (Application service provider)通过Internet以集中管理的方式为客户端提供服务。订阅ASP服务的用户不需要过多关注应用程序的部署、集成、访问、培训、管理和支持，因为所有这些都是由ASP完成的。针对企业实施RFID缺乏资金和专业知识以及RFID系统建设复杂的困难，重点研究了基于ASP模型的RFID系统与企业应用系统集成的解决方案
{"title":"Public RFID service platform based on ASP model","authors":"Jie Wu, Dong Wang, H. Sheng","doi":"10.1109/ICEBE.2005.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2005.99","url":null,"abstract":"Radio frequency identification (RFID) is expected to be widely used in the future, as it can be embedded into everyday items as RFID tags. Using RFID technology, enterprises can share real-time data about products with trade partners over the Internet. Application service provider (ASP) provides services for clients in a central managing way by Internet. Users who subscribe the ASP service do not need to pay much attention about the deployment, integration, access, training, management, and support of applications, because all these are done by ASP. According to the difficulties of lacking of funds and expertise for implementing RFID and complicated RFID system construction the enterprises encountered, we focus on a solution to integrate RFID system with enterprise application system based on ASP model","PeriodicalId":118472,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'05)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132395289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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