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An architectural style for process-intensive web information systems

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Udo Kannengiesser,

Yan LiuAuthors Info & Claims

WISE'10: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web information systems engineering

Pages 534 - 547

Published: 12 December 2010 Publication History

Abstract

REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is the architecture style behind the World Wide Web (WWW), allowing for many desirable quality attributes such as adaptability and interoperability. However, as many process-intensive Web information systems do not make use of REST, they often do not achieve these qualities. This paper addresses this issue by proposing RESTful Business Processes (RESTfulBP), an architectural style that adapts REST principles to Web-based business processes. RESTfulBP views processes and activities as transferrable resources by representing them as process fragments associated with a set of standard operations. Distributed process fragments interoperate by adhering to these operations and exchanging process information. The process information contains basic workflow patterns that are used for dynamic process coordination at runtime. We validate our approach through an industry case study.

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Lei JBai RGuo LZhang L(2016)Towards a Scalable Framework for Artifact-Centric Business Process Management SystemsProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering - Volume 1004210.1007/978-3-319-48743-4_25(309-323)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2016
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1930028.1930030

Index Terms

An architectural style for process-intensive web information systems
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications

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WISE'10: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web information systems engineering

December 2010

638 pages

ISBN:3642176151

Editors:
Lei Chen
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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Peter Triantafillou
University of Patras, Patras, Greece
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Torsten Suel
Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY

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Lei JBai RGuo LZhang L(2016)Towards a Scalable Framework for Artifact-Centric Business Process Management SystemsProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering - Volume 1004210.1007/978-3-319-48743-4_25(309-323)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-48743-4_25
Lu QXu XTosic VKeung JZhu L(2010)Integration of RESTfulBP with BDIM decision makingMiddleware '10 Posters and Demos Track10.1145/1930028.1930030(1-4)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1930028.1930030

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