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Simulating process orchestrations in business networks: a case using BPEL4WS

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Tamrat W. Tewoldeberhan,

Alexander Verbraeck,

Simon S. MsanjilaAuthors Info & Claims

ICEC '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic commerce

Pages 471 - 477

https://doi.org/10.1145/1089551.1089636

Published: 15 August 2005 Publication History

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The world today is witnessing a growing interest in conducting supply chain business processes electronically. Different supporting technologies are emerging, and many are already available on the market. The adoption of these technologies is hampered by the fact that organizations demand that their data and inner business processes remain hidden. Recent research and innovations have shown that Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web Services can address the major issues encountered in complex supply chains. Yet one of the main challenges that still exist is efficient and effective orchestration of the variety of Web Services in the supply chain. This paper presents a simulation-based approach to improve orchestration of supply chain business processes. The approach is described by using the de facto business process specification standard for web services i.e., Business Process Execution Language for Web Service (BPEL4WS). A fictitious but realistic end-to-end supply chain case study is used to demonstrate and evaluate the approach.

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She WYen IThuraisingham B(2010)WS-SimProceedings of the 2010 IEEE 34th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops10.1109/COMPSACW.2010.29(109-114)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/COMPSACW.2010.29
Thomas OLeyking KDreifus F(2008)Using Process Models for the Design of Service-Oriented ArchitecturesProceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences10.1109/HICSS.2008.486Online publication date: 7-Jan-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/HICSS.2008.486
Wynn MDumas MFidge Cter Hofstede Avan der Aalst W(2008)Business Process Simulation for Operational Decision SupportBusiness Process Management Workshops10.1007/978-3-540-78238-4_8(66-77)Online publication date: 2008
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78238-4_8

Index Terms

Simulating process orchestrations in business networks: a case using BPEL4WS
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation support systems

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ICEC '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic commerce

August 2005

957 pages

ISBN:1595931120

DOI:10.1145/1089551

Conference Chairs:
Qi Li
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
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Ting-Peng Liang
Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, China

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She WYen IThuraisingham B(2010)WS-SimProceedings of the 2010 IEEE 34th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops10.1109/COMPSACW.2010.29(109-114)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/COMPSACW.2010.29
Thomas OLeyking KDreifus F(2008)Using Process Models for the Design of Service-Oriented ArchitecturesProceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences10.1109/HICSS.2008.486Online publication date: 7-Jan-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/HICSS.2008.486
Wynn MDumas MFidge Cter Hofstede Avan der Aalst W(2008)Business Process Simulation for Operational Decision SupportBusiness Process Management Workshops10.1007/978-3-540-78238-4_8(66-77)Online publication date: 2008
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78238-4_8

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