Business Processes
Links - Business Process Execution Language
Updated Sept 12 2008: moved from Devel site, added new links.
I must admit that I have been skeptical about the utility of full-featured, full-blown business process languages, especially for use in what I anticipate to be a simplified interface for the Semantic Web. If the language isn't fairly intuitive, people just aren't going to understand it.
Links - Business Processes
A few links, so far.
Links - Workflow Modeling
Workflow modeling can be a very technically-oriented subject, often requiring that the practitioner understanding a specialized notation. Most of this content is on the Development site ( link above ).
Link - OASIS Universal Business Language
From the document:
The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) is intended to help solve these problems by defining a generic XML interchange format for business documents that can be extended to meet the requirements of particular industries. Specifically, UBL provides the following:
A library of XML schemas for reusable data components such as “Address,” “Item,” and “Payment” — the common data elements of everyday business documents.
AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management
The AAAI seems to be rumbling to life. An extended quote from their call for participation in the upcoming AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium Series ( with a few explanatory links inserted ):
Links - Business Process Management (BPM)
Good no-nonsense advice in the form of questions and answers about BPM. Unlike some overly-technical approaches to BPM, it shows a keen awareness of the importance of business rules and business issues in general.
Be prepared to zoom the text size in your browser.
Another good introduction and overview is Co-ordination Protocol and BPEL, which, despite its title, turns out to be solid business-oriented discussion of BPM issues. Some of the links do not seem to be functioning correctly.
