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Using process mining to business process distribution

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Faramarz Safi Esfahani,

Masrah Azrifah Azmi Murad,

Md. Nasir Sulaiman,

Nur Izura UdzirAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 2140 - 2145

https://doi.org/10.1145/1529282.1529755

Published: 08 March 2009 Publication History

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is by far the most pervasive architecture which includes several building blocks among which orchestration engine is under special focus. Although, there are a number of centralized orchestration engines to execute business processes described by BPEL language in SOA, you may find several decentralized orchestration engines and their purpose is decomposing a BPEL process to several software agents to improve quality factors such as adaptability, performance and so forth. As these process distribution methods break a BPEL process to its building activities and encapsulate each activity in one agent, it results in producing a lot of agents whose interactions and resource usage would degrade the run-time environment. This paper proposes an intelligent process distribution (IPD) based on a process mining approach in which the selection of activities that should be encapsulated in agents, depends on the previous behavior of process instances. The recommended IPD approach will improve three aspects of system quality. First; is the amelioration of business process adaptability with run-time environment, second; choosing the best agent granularity based on detecting most relevant activities and encapsulating them in agents and third; is decreasing of resource usage due to reduced and improved number of produced agents and messages. Furthermore, we proved our method using a mathematical approach.

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SAC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing

March 2009

2347 pages

ISBN:9781605581668

DOI:10.1145/1529282

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South Dakota State University, United States
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Sascha Ossowski
University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

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