CAiSE’02 Tutorial
Title: The Application of Workflow Management Technology in Process-based B2B Integration
Presenter: Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation
Abstract:
Business-to-business (B2B) integration deals fundamentally with the integration of the business processes of the various enterprises involved in inter-enterprise message exchanges. This involves not only the modeling of the processes within a business (private processes) but also the definition of the external message exchange behavior (public processes) of a business. B2B integration technology therefore requires strong process support in architectures for B2B integration solutions. Workflow management system technology is a basic component that can provide process support to B2B integration technology. Since workflow management system technology is a generic technology component, it has to be embedded into an overall B2B integration architecture in order to be applicable to the area of B2B integration. Since it is easy to apply workflow management technology in a naïve way not using its full potential in context of B2B integration a special effort is made during the tutorial to distinguish inappropriate from advantageous use of workflow technology. The tutorial "The Application of Workflow Management Technology in Process-based B2B Integration" enables the attendees to understand and characterize the field of B2B integration in general and the use of workflow management technology in B2B integration specifically to address the required process functionality for B2B integration. Furthermore, after the tutorial attendees will be able to · appreciate the need for and the advantages of process-based B2B integration · understand how workflow management technology can be used in B2B integration · distinguish naïve and sophisticated application of workflow management technology in B2B integration · model process-based B2B integration scenarios and judge the quality of modeled integration · place workflow technology as fundamental component into an overall B2B integration architecture · explain how components of B2B integration architectures interact with each other
Bio:
Christoph Bussler (http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler) is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at the Oracle Corporation’s Integration Platform Architecture Group based in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. In an architecture role he is responsible for the overall architecture of Oracle’s next generation integration platform technology addressing B2B, A2A as well as ASP integration. Previous to his current position he was Architect at Jamcracker, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, USA, responsible for Jamcracker’s application service provider (ASP) integration and aggregation architecture. While at Netfish Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, USA, he was responsible for the architecture and development of Netfish Technologies’ B2B integration server in the role of Technical Director of Engineering. Christoph had the role of Advanced Computing Technologist at The Boeing Company’s Applied Research and Technology group based in Seattle, WA, USA. As project manager of the Workflow Management project he was responsible for conducting workflow research, transferring workflow technology into The Boeing Company, applying workflow technology in workflow projects and representing The Boeing Company in standardization efforts. As engineer at the Digital Equipment Corporation’s Activity Management Group, Mountain View, CA, USA, Christoph developed a Policy Resolution Architecture and its prototype implementation for Digital’s workflow management system product. Christoph was faculty member at the Database Chair of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he earned his Ph. D. degree in the area of workflow management. His research work concentrated on workflow management and organization modeling, with a focus on organizational embedding of workflow management and architectures of execution infrastructures for enterprise-wide deployment of workflow management. Research results were implemented in the workflow management system prototype MOBILE, a transaction monitor based system. While at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, he developed a distributed reliable infrastructure for workflow execution based on persistent queuing. He holds a Master of Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, where he contributed to the workflow management research project ProMInanD that was funded by ESPRIT. Christoph Bussler has published two technical books (one of which he co-authored) on workflow management as well as several book chapters. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in international conferences and journals. He served as program committee member and reviewer on numerous conferences and workshops.
Contact details:
Dr. Christoph Bussler
website: http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler