A value-oriented approach to business process compensation design

Abstract

Service oriented paradigm offers a way to leverage business agility and reactivity by shortening time-to-market and increasing reusability. However, we argue that in order to offer robust software the business process designer has to account for numerous error paths with little or no guidance. Many studies have shown that this activity represents the bulk of the design process. In this paper, we propose an approach at assisting the process designer in assessing the compensatory activities based on business objectives that we model through a value chain.