Barcelona: A Design and Runtime Environment for Declarative Artifact-Centric BPM

• Published in: Service-Oriented Computing pp. 705 - 709
• Main Authors: Heath, Fenno (Terry), Boaz, David, Gupta, Manmohan, Vaculín, Roman, Sun, Yutian, Hull, Richard, Limonad, Lior
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Artifact Type; Information Model; Lifecycle Model; Runtime Environment; Stage Execution
• ISBN: 9783642450044; 3642450040
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45005-1_65

A promising approach to managing business operations is based on business artifacts, a.k.a. business entities (with lifecycles) [8, 6]. These are key conceptual entities that are central to guiding the operations of a business, and whose content changes as they move through those operations. A business artifact type is modeled using (a) an information model, which is intended to hold all business-relevant data about entities of this type, and (b) a lifecycle model, which is intended to hold the possible ways that an entity of this type might progress through the business. In 2010 a declarative style of business artifact lifecycles, called Guard-Stage-Milestone (GSM), was introduced [4, 5]. GSM has since been adopted [7] to form the conceptual basis of the OMG Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) standard [1]. The Barcelona component of the recently open-sourced [2] ArtiFact system supports both design-time and run-time environments for GSM. Both of these will be illustrated in the proposed demo.