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Analyzing Interacting BPEL Processes

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Business Process Management (BPM 2006)

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This paper addresses the problem of analyzing the interaction between BPEL processes. We present a technology chain that starts out with a BPEL process and transforms it into a Petri net model. On the model we decide controllability of the process (the existence of a partner process, such that both can interact properly) and compute its operating guideline (a characterization of all properly interacting partner processes). A case study demonstrates the value of this technology chain.

Partially funded by the BMBF project “Tools4BPEL”.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany

    Niels Lohmann, Peter Massuthe, Christian Stahl & Daniela Weinberg

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  1. Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    Schahram Dustdar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, University Road, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK

    José Luiz Fiadeiro

  3. Kno.e.sis Center, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, Ohio

    Amit P. Sheth

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Lohmann, N., Massuthe, P., Stahl, C., Weinberg, D. (2006). Analyzing Interacting BPEL Processes. In: Dustdar, S., Fiadeiro, J.L., Sheth, A.P. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11841760_3

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