Combining SOA and BPM Technologies for Cross-System Process Automation

This paper summarizes the results of an industry case study that introduced a cross-system business process automation solution based on a combination of SOA and BPM standard technologies (i.e., BPMN, BPEL, WSDL). Besides discussing major weaknesses of the existing, custom-built, solution and comparing them against experiences with the developed prototype, the paper presents a course of action for transforming the current solution into the proposed solution. This includes a general approach, consisting of four distinct steps, as well as specific action items that are to be performed for every step. The discussion also covers language and tool support and challenges arising from the transformation

Transformations for Rapid Prototyping of Time-critical Applications

Application software nowadays tends to be more intelligent to perform actions autonomously, and the development of such software tends to have shorter turn around time. In our approach for designing distributed intelligence systems, each object called a Tele-Action Object (TAO) is enhanced by an index cell (IC). Objects enhanced by index cells can perform actions by themselves. Therefore intelligence is distributed to these tele-action objects. An IC system is an active index consisting of a network of index cells that embodies a lot of distributed knowledge to enhance the overall intelligence of the application software. In the rapid prototyping of time-critical applications, intelligent application software can be generated by combining the technologies of IC cards, IC system (active index), relational mining and time management to transform IC card specifications into executable codes, thus accelerating and simplifying the development of time-critical applications. The Methodology for this transformation approach is described in detail in this paper