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Links - Business Process Execution Language

billb — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:51:22 -0600

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

billb — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:37:52 -0600

A few links, so far.

Links - Workflow Modeling

billb — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:53:04 -0600

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

billb — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:49:54 -0600

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.

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AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management

billb — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:32:01 -0600

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)

billb — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:52:57 -0600

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.