Empirical Studies on the Development of Executable Business Processes
This book collects essential research on the practical application of executable business process modeling in real-world projects, i.e., model-driven solutions for the support and automation of digital business processes that are created using languages s
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irical Studies on the Development of Executable Business Processes
Empirical Studies on the Development of Executable Business Processes
Daniel L¨ubke • Cesare Pautasso Editors
Empirical Studies on the Development of Executable Business Processes
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Editors Daniel L¨ubke Fachgebiet Software Engineering Leibniz Universit¨at Hannover Hannover, Germany
Cesare Pautasso Faculty of Informatics Universit`a della Svizzera italiana (USI) Lugano, Switzerland
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To my family and my friends. Without them none of this would be possible. I am very glad to be surrounded by people who are that nice and support me every day. Thank you! – Daniel To my Hope for the future – Cesare
Foreword
Executable business processes. At first sight, the topic may sound trivial to some people used to model business processes on a regular basis, yet I feel it is not. Getting from a graphical model to software (or a configuration thereof) that is able to automatically orchestrate other software components, such as web services or generic web APIs, or to coordinate people performing different business activities, requires not only familiarity with the chosen modeling notation but also intimate knowledge of the target runtime environment and of the model’s execution semantics. Let’s be frank: while it is relatively easy to draw some form of understandable process model on paper, for example, using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), how many of us have the necessary knowledge and skills to also deploy that model on a given business
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