Enforcement of entailment constraints in distributed service-based business processes

• Published in: Information and software technology Vol. 55; no. 11; pp. 1884 - 1903
• Main Authors: Hummer, Waldemar, Gaubatz, Patrick, Strembeck, Mark, Zdun, Uwe, Dustdar, Schahram
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier B.V 01.11.2013; Elsevier Science Ltd; Butterworths
• Subjects: Architecture (computers); Business Process Execution Language; Business process management; Computer programs; Enforcement; Entailment constraints; Identity and access management; Prototypes; Service oriented architecture; Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); Software; Software services; Studies; Systems integration; WS-BPEL; Identity and access management; Business process management; Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); Entailment constraints; WS-BPEL

A distributed business process is executed in a distributed computing environment. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is a popular option for the integration of software services and execution of distributed business processes. Entailment constraints, such as mutual exclusion and bindi...