Cloud Workflow Modeling Based on Extended Proclets Framework

Authors

  • Hua Huang State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute
  • Rong Peng State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University
  • Zaiwen Feng State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2016.23.4.2790

Keywords:

cloud workflow model, proclets, interaction between multi-tenant business processes, process fragment reuse

Abstract

How to promote common process fragments reuse, how to accelerate business process customization process for multiple tenants and how to model interactions between different tenants' business processes while protecting their privacy, are the main research focuses of existing cloud workflow modeling approaches. This paper proposes a cloud workflow modeling approach based on an extended proclets framework which has the following advantages: 1) provides a hierarchical management mechanism to isolate the private data of each tenant’s business process; 2) adopts two-level-channel transmission protocol to explicitly model interaction between different tenants' business processes. To exactly describe and understand the modeling approach, the formal definition and construction procedure of cloud workflow model based on extended proclets are presented. At last, a case study is carried out to illustrate its modeling capability and feasibility, and to evaluate the applying effect of our modeling approach, the run effect of a cloud workflow system developed by adopting our proposed modeling approach is evaluated through three indexes: communication error rate, data leakage rate and user satisfaction. 

Author Biographies

Hua Huang, State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute

Hua huang is an associate professor in School of Information Engineering in Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute and now is a Phd candidate in School of Computer, Wuhan University, China. His research focuses on cloud computing and business process model management

Rong Peng, State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University

Rong peng is a professor and doctoral supervisorfrom the School of Computer, Wuhan University, China. Her research interests include requirements engineering, software engineering and cloud computing,et al

Zaiwen Feng, State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University

Zaiwen feng is a lecturer of the School of Computer, Wuhan University, China. His research focuses on business process management, service computing and software requirements modeling and so on

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Published

2016-12-19

How to Cite

Huang, H., Peng, R., & Feng, Z. (2016). Cloud Workflow Modeling Based on Extended Proclets Framework. International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 23(4). https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2016.23.4.2790

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 4 (2016)

Section

Special Issue: 2015 Asian Pacific Conference on Business Process Manangement

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