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

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 busin...