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BP-Ex: a uniform query engine for business process execution traces

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EDBT '10: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology

Pages 713 - 716

https://doi.org/10.1145/1739041.1739134

Published: 22 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Many enterprises nowadays use business processes, based on the BPEL standard, to achieve their goals. Analyzing the execution of such processes is critical for enforcing business policies and meeting efficiency and reliability goals.

The BP-Ex system presented in this demo is an important component of BP-Suite, a novel tools suite based on the BPEL standard, which offers a uniform, query-based, user-friendly interface for BP analysis. BP-suite allows to gracefully combine the analysis of process specifications, monitoring of run time behavior, and posteriorly querying of execution traces (logs), for a comprehensive process management. BP-Ex is the BP-Suite query engine for process execution traces. The goal of this demo is to highlight the particular challenges that had to be addressed to support the suite's uniform, intuitive query interface, over (possibly very large) execution traces, and to demonstrate the novel optimization techniques that had to be developed for that.

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BP-Ex: a uniform query engine for business process execution traces
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
    1. Business process management
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management

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EDBT '10: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology

March 2010

741 pages

ISBN:9781605589459

DOI:10.1145/1739041

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Ioana Manolescu
INRIA, France
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Stefano Spaccapietra
EPFL, Switzerland
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Jens Teubner
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Masaru Kitsuregawa
Tokyo University, Japan
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Alain Leger
Orange - France Telecom R&D, France
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Felix Naumann
Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
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Anastasia Ailamaki
EPFL, Switzerland
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Fatma Ozcan
IBM Almaden Research Center

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Derguech WCurry EBhiri S(2017)Techniques for Reuse in Business Process Modeling in Public AdministrationGovernment 3.0 – Next Generation Government Technology Infrastructure and Services10.1007/978-3-319-63743-3_5(111-134)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63743-3_5
Fazzinga BFlesca SFurfaro FMasciari EPontieri LPulice CDesai BToyama MBernardino J(2016)How, Who and WhenProceedings of the 20th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium10.1145/2938503.2938538(242-247)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2938503.2938538
Fazzinga BFlesca SFurfaro FMasciari EPontieri L(2015)A compression-based framework for the efficient analysis of business process logsProceedings of the 27th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management10.1145/2791347.2791351(1-12)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2791347.2791351
Yongsiriwit KChan NGaaloul W(2015)Log-Based Process Fragment Querying to Support Process DesignProceedings of the 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences10.1109/HICSS.2015.493(4109-4119)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2015
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