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Workflow/Business processes typically rely on state-of-the-art integration platforms to
enable interactions with remote applications, Web services, and partner processes.
State-of-the-art integration platforms posess many conceptual and technical problems,
and hence Workflow/Business processes hence have inherited them - when it comes to integration.
This project seeks to find ways to better support inter-process communication through satisfying
the following goals:
- To investigate and resolve some of the core conceptual problems of integration in general.
- To propose a comprehensive set of process integration patterns that highlight what is required for business processes to inter-connect.
- To produce prototypes of new technologies, that resolve the core conceptual problems of integration.
- To link the new technologies of [3] with the well known business process platform YAWL.
Progress on Goal #1 so far has gone extremely well. Late 2005
a paper on the notion of coupling in middleware
was presented in the internatonal conference on Distributed Objects and Applications - Cyprus.
The paper was nominated with honorable mention for the
2005 Manfred Paul Award (2nd out of 360 conference submissions & 268 workshop submissions).
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