Integrating Complex Events for Collaborating and Dynamically Changing Business Processes

Business processes must become agile, respond to changes in the business environment in a timely manner and quickly adapt themselves to new conditions. Event-Driven Business Process Management (ED-BPM) is an enhancement of Business Process Management (BPM) by concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Complex Event Processing (CEP). The most important enhancement is the integration of services accessible via the Internet that fire events into global event clouds. The events can be processed by event processing platforms for aggregating the information into higher value complex business events. These events can be modeled in a business process execution language within a process driven Business Process Management System (BPMS) to trigger changes in control flow of a process or start other services. A reference model and a reference architecture for ED-BPM are presented, based on the NEXOF Reference Architecture. A taxonomy for classifying changes to process flow is proposed. En...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICSOC
• Authors: Rainer von Ammon, Thomas Ertlmaier, Opher Etzion, Alexander Kofman, Thomas Paulus
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Business Process Execution Language, Business Process Management, ICSOC 2009, Reference Architecture