Modeling and Execution of Multienterprise Business Processes

TL;DR

This paper presents a cloud-based multienterprise business process platform utilizing agent-oriented modeling with S-BPM, demonstrating its ability to model and execute common service interaction patterns in B2B contexts.

Contribution

It introduces an architecture for a multienterprise platform based on agent-oriented S-BPM, enabling flexible execution of distributed business processes using cloud services.

Findings

All service interaction patterns can be modeled and executed using the architecture.

The platform demonstrates effective realization of B2B interactions.

A shift from control flow to agent-based modeling enhances process flexibility.

Abstract

We discuss a fully featured multienterprise business process plattform (ME-BPP) based on the concepts of agent-based business processes. Using the concepts of the subject-oriented business process (S-BPM) methodology we developed an architecture to realize a platform for the execution of distributed business processes. The platform is implemented based on cloud technology using commercial services. For our discussion we used the well known Service Interaction Patterns, as they are empirically developed from typical business-to-business interactions. We can demonstrate that all patterns can be easily modeled and executed based on our architecture. We propose therefore a change from a control flow based to an agent based view to model and enact business processes.