Name: Dr. Basit Shafiq
Designation: Associate Professor
Affiliation: LUMS
Country: Pakistan
Talk Title: ASSEMBLE: A Service Mapping Approach for Collaborative Business Process Development
Abstract: Business Process (BP) development is a challenging task for small and medium organizations who do not have sufficient resources for design, coding, and management of their BPs. Cloud infrastructure and service-oriented middleware can be leveraged for rapid development and deployment of BPs of such organizations. BP development in the cloud-based environment can be done collaboratively by exploiting the knowledge of existing BPs of related organizations. However, syntactic and semantic heterogeneity among the Web service operations of BPs across organizations is a major obstacle to such collaborative BP development. In this talk, I will discuss our proposed approach for collaborative BP development. Our proposed approach, called ASSEMBLE, utilizes the attribute, structural and semantics information of service operations of existing BPs in a given domain to help a user organization to compose its BP. Given a collection of related BPs and available service operations of a user organization, ASSEMBLE computes a mapping between service operations of the user organization and BP operations of other organizations. ASSEMBLE also generates the executable BP code in standard BPEL language, which can be deployed on any process execution engine on the user organization’s site or on the cloud.