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Business workflow assembles together a collection of tasks or activities in order to accomplish a business objective. Management of business workflows is facing many significant challenges, including in particular design, making changes, interoperations, etc. A key step in addressing these challenges is to develop techniques for mapping logical workflow specifications into executable workflow systems. In this paper we introduce a new artifact-centric workflow model called Artifact Conceptual Flow (ArtiFlow) and show that automated translation from ArtiFlow to BPEL is achievable. We also discuss technical issues in the translation.
Work supported in part by US NSF grants IIS0145195, CNS0613998, and IIS0812578; and also by NSF of China grant 60873115, the National Basic Research Program (973) grant 2005CB321905.
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Liu, G., Liu, X., Qin, H., Su, J., Yan, Z., Zhang, L. (2010). Automated Realization of Business Workflow Specification. In: Dan, A., Gittler, F., Toumani, F. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 Workshops. ServiceWave ICSOC 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16132-2_9
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