A Systematic Review and Assessment of Aspect-oriented Methods Applied to Business Process Adaptation

摘要

Today’s ever-changing business environments,comprised among other things of customer expectations,market demands, and legal obligations, require dynamicand adaptive business processes. Hence, enterprises need tomonitor and improve their business processes against theirbusiness goals and constraints. Aspect-oriented developmentis known to have helped designers cope with changing concernsin software, even dynamically. In this paper, we performa systematic literature review of aspect-orientedapproaches for business process adaptation. We observethat current methods focus on i) composing and swappingservices based on Quality of Service (QoS), cost, rules, policies,and constraints, as well as in the event of failure, ii)extracting roles and crosscutting concerns from compositeservices, iii) customizing process instances based on userprofiles or Service Level Agreements, iv) adapting servicecomposition and collaboration policies, and v) using monitoringaspects to detect undesired situations. This reviewalso suggests that our own aspect-oriented process modelingand adaptation framework is novel because none of theother approaches considers organization goals, performanceand constraints as a whole when improving business processes.In addition, given much prior research on aspectorientedservice composition is available, we are confidentthat our modeling framework is realizable.