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Bringing Semantics to Aspect-Oriented Business Process Management

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Abstract

In software development, crosscutting concerns, such as security, audit, access control, authentication, logging, persistence, transaction and error handling, can be modularized using aspect-oriented approaches, which can also benefit the business process from the reduction in complexity. Literature refers to techniques that address aspects on process implementation and modeling. However, they adopt different semantic representation of aspects and related elements, making it difficult to provide integration between these phases of the business process lifecycle. This paper aims at addressing the issue of crosscutting concerns during the lifecycle of a business process with an approach based on an ontology for aspect-orientation and a semantic service invocation. Our main contribution is a bridge for the semantic gap between the modeling and implementation steps of aspect-oriented business processes.

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    WSMO (2005), “Web Service Modeling Ontology”, Available at http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSMO.

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    WSML (2008), “Web Service Modeling Language”, Available at http://www.wsmo.org/wsml/wsml-syntax.

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    WSMX (2005), “Web Service Modeling Execution Environment”, Available at http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSMX/.

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informática, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil

    Aldinei Bastos, Flávia Maria Santoro & Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira

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Bastos, A., Santoro, F.M., Siqueira, S.W.M. (2014). Bringing Semantics to Aspect-Oriented Business Process Management. In: Lohmann, N., Song, M., Wohed, P. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 171. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06257-0_23

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