A Motivation for Multiple Activity Instantiation in BPEL4WS Processes

We suggest to extend BPEL4WS with structured activities for multiple instantiation since this is a crucial feature of a business process modelling language. In particular, we propose to extend BPEL4WS with a collect and a broadcast activity to model multiple instances as well as list data structures to handle similar messages of multiple parties that act according to the same role.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Jan Mendling, Mark Strembeck, Gustaf Neumann
• Keywords: CAISE 2004, Multiple Instances, Multiple Instantiation, Process Modelling Language