TY  - JOUR
A1  - Decker, Gero
A1  - Weske, Mathias
T1  - Interaction-centric modeling of process choreographies
JF  - Information systems
N2  - With the rise of electronic integration between organizations, the need for a precise specification of interaction behavior increases. Information systems, replacing interaction previously carried out by humans via phone, faxes and emails, require a precise specification for handling all possible situations. Such interaction behavior is described in process choreographies. While many proposals for choreography languages have already been made, most of them fall into the category of interconnection models, where the observable behavior of the different partners is described and then related via message flow. As this article will show, this modeling approach fails to support fundamental design principles of choreographies and typically leads to modeling errors. This motivates an alternative modeling style, namely interaction modeling, for overcoming these limitations. While the main concepts are independent of a concrete modeling language, iBPMN is introduced as novel interaction modeling language. Formal execution semantics are provided and a comprehensive toolset implementing the approach is presented.
KW  - Choreographies
KW  - B2B process integration
KW  - Interaction modeling
KW  - Business Process Modeling Notation
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2010.06.005
SN  - 0306-4379
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SP  - 292
EP  - 312
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -