ASSEMBLE: a collaborative business process development tool

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. In this paper, we present ASSEMBLE, a tool for collaborative BP development in the cloud. ASSEMBLE implements our service mapping approach that 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. The tool also generates the executable BP code in standard BPEL language for deployment on a process execution engine on the user organization's site or on the cloud.