International audienceAPROMORE (Advanced PROocess MOdel REpository) is an open and extensible plat- form meant to face the challenge of how to deal with an increasing number of business process models within or accross organisations

Aalst, W.M.P.,

Alshareef, A.

Dijkman, R.-M.

Dumas, Marlon

Fauvet, Marie-Christine

Garcìa-Bañuelos, G.

La Rosa, M.

Mendling, Jan

Reijers, H.-A.

Sadegh, M.

Aalst, W.M.P., van Der

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Management of multi-language business processes with”AProMoRe”Marie-Christine Fauvet, M. La Rosa, A. Alshareef, M. Sadegh, R.-M.Dijkman, Marlon Dumas, G. Garc`ıa-Ban˜uelos, Jan Mendling, H.-A. Reijers,W.M.P. AalstTo cite this version:Marie-Christine Fauvet, M. La Rosa, A. Alshareef, M. Sadegh, R.-M. Dijkman, et al.. Manage-ment of multi-language business processes with ”AProMoRe”. Proc. of the 8th Int. Conferenceon Service Oriented Computing, demo session, 2010, San Francisco, CA, United States. pp.699-701, 2010. <hal-00953831>HAL Id: hal-00953831https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00953831Submitted on 11 Apr 2014HAL is a multi-disciplinary open accessarchive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come fromteaching and research institutions in France orabroad, or from public or private research centers.L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, estdestine´e au de´poˆt et a` la diffusion de documentsscientifiques de niveau recherche, publie´s ou non,e´manant des e´tablissements d’enseignement et derecherche franc¸ais ou e´trangers, des laboratoirespublics ou prive´s.Management of multi-language business processes withAPROMORE⋆M.C. Fauvet1⋆⋆, M. La Rosa2, A. Alshareef2, M. Sadegh2, R.M. Dijkman3,M. Dumas4, L. Garcı`a-Ban˜uelos4, J. Mendling5, H.A. Reijers3, W.M.P. van der Aalst3,1 LIG, University of Grenoble, France2 BPM Group, Queensland University of Technology, Australia3 Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands4 University of Tartu, Estonia5 Humbolt-Universita¨t zu Berlin, Germany1 IntroductionAPROMORE (Advanced PROocess MOdel REpository) is an open and extensible plat-form meant to face the challenge of how to deal with an increasing number of businessprocess models within or accross organisations. To address the issues which are raisedin in this context, it becomes essential to keep track of the various models as they mayrefer to each other, mutually overlap, supersede one another and evolve, while repre-sented in different notations such as EPCs, BPMN, YAWL, etc. APROMORE providesfeatures to store and disclose business process models of a variety of types and lan-guages. Beyond that, APROMORE is built on top of existing tools and techniques, toprovide state-of-the-art features for model presentations, analysis, integration, compar-ison, improvement an re-use.The demonstration aims at providing an overview of APROMORE capabilities re-garding import, export and edition of business process models captured in various no-tations. The main contribution is APROMORE support for dealing with models in dif-ferent notations, and maintaining the relations that exist between models.2 Multi-language business process representationAPROMORE has adopted an canonical format for process definition which deals withthe multitude of process modeling notations [1]. The canonical process format (CPF)provides a common, unambiguous representation of business processes captured in dif-ferent notations and/or at different abstraction levels, such that all process models canbe treated alike. The idea behind this format is to represent only the structural charac-teristics of a process model that are common in the majority of modeling languages.Language-specific concepts are omitted because they cannot be meaningfully inter-preted when dealing with process models originating from dierent notations, i.e. when⋆ brahms0.imag.fr:8080/Apromore-portal, login as icsoc, no password.⋆⋆ Corresponding author: marie-christine.fauvet@imag.fr. This work has been done when shewas visiting fellow at QUT - BPM research group, Brisbane, Australia.cross-language operations are performed. Moreover, this canonical format is agnostic tographical information such as shapes, line thickness and positions, which is containedin a concrete process definition. This information is stored separately in the form ofannotations (APF), and only used when a canonical model needs to be presented to theuser or converted to an original format (NPF).3 ArchitectureAPROMORE has been implemented as an open-source SAAS (Software-As-A-Service)6, and is based upon 7 services independant from each other (see Figure 1).Apromore portal is a web application which, by the means of graphical interfaces,provides users operations to access, store, retrieve, manipulate, etc. process models.The portal offers limited functionalities to anonymous users while registered users havea choice of features depending on their roles. Apromore-portal delegates editing ca-pabilities to existing editors (i.e. Oryx7 for BPMN models). Manager service exposesoperations needed by other applications and services to access process models. Canon-iser is responsible for performing canonization and de-canonization of process modelsgiven in certain native format. Toolbox service encapsulates operations to be performedon process models. Data access service encapsulates data-centric operations responsi-ble for writing/reading data upon requests made by other services while Algo. Accessencapsulates accesses to algorithms.(de) Canoniser ToolboxManagermessage−basedinteractionsLegend:Algo Accesspurpose datageneralEditor Apromore Portaldata layerintermediate layerenterprise layerData AccessAlgorithmsXMLrelationalClient Applicationsdescriptions(NPF, CPF, APF)processFig. 1. APROMORE architectureReferences1. M. La Rosa, H.-A. Reijers, W.-M.-P. van der Aalst, D. R.-M., J. Mendling, M. Dumas, andL. Garcia-Ban˜uelos. Apromore: an advanced process model repository. Submitted.6 Sources are available at http://code.google.com/p/apromore/7 bpt.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/Oryx/WebHome

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