Business Process as a Service: Model Based Business and IT Cloud Alignment as a Cloud Offering

Validation should be done in the context of understanding how a business process is intended to contribute to the business strategies of an organization. Validation can take place along a variety of dimensions including legal compliance, financial cost, customer value, and service quality. A business process modeling tool cannot anticipate all the ways in which a business process might need to be validated. However, it can provide a framework for extending model elements to represent context for a business process. It can also support information exchange to facilitate validation with other tools and systems. This chapter demonstrates a model-based approach to validation using a hospital approval process for accessing patient data in a data warehouse. An extensible meta-model, a flexible data exchange layer, and linkage between business processes and enterprise context are shown to be the critical elements in model-based business process validation.

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Development of a Simulation Model for Optimization of Business Process

Burstiness Management for Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth - Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5442-4.ch002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 26-42

Keyword(s):

Simulation Model ◽

Model Validation ◽

Business Process ◽

Research Question ◽

Future Research ◽

The Novel ◽

Model Based ◽

Model Validity ◽

Proposed Model ◽

New Research

Optimization of business process assists in efficient organization of business process. For the success of optimization of business process, a simulation model based on gap processes for the analysis of buyers' burstiness in business process has been proposed. However, the model has to be validated. The aim of the research is to implement a validation approach to the simulation model based on gap processes for the optimization of business process underpinning elaboration of a new research question on the model validity. The meaning of the key concepts of “validation,” “model validation,” and “model validation approach” is studied. The results of the present research show that the application of real system measurements validates the simulation model for the optimization of business process. The novel contribution of the manuscript is revealed in the newly created research question on the proposed model validity. Directions of future research are proposed.

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A Model-based Approach for Diagnosing Fault in Web Service Processes

Innovations, Standards and Practices of Web Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-104-7.ch005 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 92-116

Author(s):

Yuhong Yan ◽

Philippe Dague ◽

Yannick Pencolé ◽

Marie-Odile Cordier

Keyword(s):

Web Services ◽

Web Service ◽

Business Process ◽

Business Processes ◽

Formal Model ◽

Service Orchestration ◽

Model Based ◽

Architecture Framework ◽

Web Service Orchestration ◽

Business Process Execution

Web services based on a service-oriented architecture framework provide a suitable technical foundation for business process management and integration. A business process can be composed of a set of Web services that belong to different companies and interact with each other by sending messages. Web service orchestration languages are defined by standard organizations to describe business processes composed of Web services. A business process can fail for many reasons, such as faulty Web services or mismatching messages. It is important to find out which Web services are responsible for a failed business process because we could penalize these Web services and exclude them from the business process in the future. In this paper, we propose a model-based approach to diagnose the faults in a Web service-composed business process. We convert a Web service orchestration language, more specifically BPEL4WS, into synchronized automata, so that we have a formal description of the topology and variable dependency of the business process. After an exception is thrown, the diagnoser can calculate the business process execution trajectory based on the formal model and the observed evolution of the business process. The faulty Web services are deduced from the variable dependency on the execution trajectory. We demonstrate our diagnosis technique with an example.

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A Credible Cloud Service Model based on Behavior Graphs and Tripartite Decision-Making Mechanism

International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing ◽

10.4018/ijghpc.2016070103 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 38-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Junfeng Tian ◽

He Zhang

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Cloud Services ◽

Service Model ◽

The Past ◽

Model Based ◽

Cloud Users ◽

Cloud User

The credibility of cloud service is the key to the success of the application of cloud services. The dual servers of master server and backup server are applied to cloud services, which can improve the availability of cloud services. In the past, the failures between master server and backup server could be detected by heartbeat algorithm. Because of lacking cloud user's evaluation, the authors put forward a credible cloud service model based on behavior Graphs and tripartite decision-making mechanism. By the quantitative of cloud users' behaviors evidences, the construction of behavior Graphs and the judgment of behavior, they select the most credible cloud user. They combine the master server, the backup server and the selected credible cloud user to determine the credibility of cloud service by the tripartite decision-making mechanism. Finally, according to the result of credible judgment, the authors could decide whether it will be switched from the master server to the backup server.

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