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Extensibility in Model-Based Business Process Engines

2009; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-02571-6_10

1865-1356

Mario Sánchez, Camilo Jiménez, Jorge Villalobos, Dirk Deridder,

Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies

An organization's ability to embrace change, greatly depends on systems that support their operation. Specifically, process engines might facilitate or hinder changes, depending on their flexibility, their extensibility and the changes required: current workflow engine characteristics create difficulties in organizations that need to incorporate some types of modifications. In this paper we present Cumbia, an extensible MDE platform to support the development of flexible and extensible process engines. In a Cumbia process, models represent participating concerns (control, resources, etc.), which are described with concern-specific languages. Cumbia models are executed in a coordinated way, using extensible engines specialized for each concern.