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International Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support

International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design

BPMDS 2011, EMMSAD 2011: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling pp 133–147Cite as

Distributed Event-Based Process Execution - Assessing Feasibility and Flexibility

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 81))

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Processes modeling and execution (with a process engine) are getting more and more incorporated in todays business environments. This movement puts a lot of stress on classical process engines which have to coordinate many process instances simultaneously. Performance degrades quickly as the number of process instances increases, and a single point of failure is introduced by using a central process execution engine. In this paper, we address these challenges by providing a non-intrusive approach to distribute a process flow and have the flow executed by multiple, smaller process engines. We pay special attention to flexibility of the eventual distributed execution, since process change is costly in a distributed environment. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by providing an implementation of the transformation and execution architecture, and demonstrate the lower cost of process change that is achieved when using a flexible process runtime architecture.

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  1. Dept. of Decision Sciences and Information Management, K.U.Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Pieter Hens, Monique Snoeck & Manu De Backer

  2. Dept. of Management Information and Operations Management, Universiteit Gent, Tweekerkenstraat 2, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Manu De Backer & Geert Poels

  3. Dept. of Management Information Systems, Universiteit Antwerpen, Prinsstraat 13, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Manu De Backer

  4. Dept. of Management and Informatics, Hogeschool Gent, Kortrijksesteenweg 14, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Manu De Backer

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Hens, P., Snoeck, M., De Backer, M., Poels, G. (2011). Distributed Event-Based Process Execution - Assessing Feasibility and Flexibility. In: Halpin, T., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2011 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 81. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_10

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