Business Process Modeling and Execution -- A Compiler for Distributed Microservices

TL;DR

This paper introduces a compiler architecture that models and executes business processes as communicating microservices on distributed virtual machines, emphasizing an actor-based approach for better alignment with business process nature.

Contribution

It proposes a novel compiler architecture that enables modeling and execution of business processes as distributed microservices using an actor-based approach.

Findings

Supports distributed execution of business processes

Enhances modeling fidelity with actor-based approach

Facilitates scalable microservice deployment

Abstract

In this paper, we propose to rethink the dominant logic of how to model business processes. We think that an actor based approach supports in a much better way the fundamental nature of business processes. We present a proposal for a compiler architecture to model and execute business processes as a set of communicating microservices that are hosted on a general purpose virtual machine for distributed execution.