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Towards a Compiler for Business Processes - A Research Agenda

Authors:
Thomas M. Prinz
Thomas S. Heinze
Wolfram Amme
Johannes Kretzschmar
Clemens Beckstein

Keywords: Business Process Management; Compiler; Intermediate Representation; Planning; Service-oriented Architecture

Abstract:
Business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architectures (SOA) promise the development, application, maintenance, and improvement of business processes, i.e., service compositions, as it is done in software engineering. However, BPM is currently more similar to an unfinished patchwork and an overall system supporting BPM is missing since it requires a unified execution engine (a virtual machine), a common intermediate representation, and eventually a compiler. In this paper, we motivate the construction of such a system for BPM and propose an approach including the mentioned sub systems. Additionally, we show the gaps in current approaches and why some techniques are not yet fully applicable. We encourage that system with state-of-the-art approaches and our own ideas of BPM, compiler construction, and artificial intelligence. Such a system finally will encourage processes for small and medium-sized enterprises and for SOA applications.

Pages: 49 to 54

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: March 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-387-2

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 22, 2015 to March 27, 2015