TY - JOUR
T1 - Querying business processes with BP-QL
AU - Beeri, Catriel
AU - Eyal, Anat
AU - Kamenkovich, Simon
AU - Milo, Tova
PY - 2008/9
Y1 - 2008/9
N2 - We present in this paper BP-QL, a novel query language for querying business processes. The BP-QL language is based on an intuitive model of business processes, an abstraction of the emerging BPEL (business process execution language) standard. It allows users to query business processes visually, in a manner very analogous to how such processes are typically specified, and can be employed in a distributed setting, where process components may be provided by distinct providers. We describe here the query language as well as its underlying formal model. We consider the properties of the various language components and explain how they influenced the language design. In particular we distinguish features that can be efficiently supported, and those that incur a prohibitively high cost, or cannot be computed at all. We also present our implementation which complies with real life standards for business process specifications, XML, and Web services, and is used in the BP-QL system.
AB - We present in this paper BP-QL, a novel query language for querying business processes. The BP-QL language is based on an intuitive model of business processes, an abstraction of the emerging BPEL (business process execution language) standard. It allows users to query business processes visually, in a manner very analogous to how such processes are typically specified, and can be employed in a distributed setting, where process components may be provided by distinct providers. We describe here the query language as well as its underlying formal model. We consider the properties of the various language components and explain how they influenced the language design. In particular we distinguish features that can be efficiently supported, and those that incur a prohibitively high cost, or cannot be computed at all. We also present our implementation which complies with real life standards for business process specifications, XML, and Web services, and is used in the BP-QL system.
KW - BPEL
KW - Business processes
KW - Distributed query processing
KW - Query language
KW - XML
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=45049087141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.is.2008.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.is.2008.02.005
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AN - SCOPUS:45049087141
SN - 0306-4379
VL - 33
SP - 477
EP - 507
JO - Information Systems
JF - Information Systems
IS - 6
ER -