Workflow and WebML Specifications for Business Processes on the Web

The WebML team at Politecnico di Milano is working on a new approach for integrating Business Process specifications within WebML models. In particular, we propose a visual editor of business process diagrams (according to the BPMN notation), which seamlessly integrates into the commercial CASE tool called WebRatio, which allows the designer to model data-intensive and service-intensive Web applications based on WebML (Web Modeling Language) models. A set of model transformations from BPMN workflow diagrams to WebML hypertext diagrams allows fast generation of site skeletons implementing the specified business process. Such skeletons can be modified by the designer that is relieved from the time-consuming and error-prone task of specifying all the details of the workflow constraints.

A screenshot of the Workflow Modeling CASE Tool (Eclipse Plugin)

Demos

Papers

M. Brambilla. "Generation of WebML Web Application Models from Business Process Specifications", Demo at 6th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2006), July 2006, Palo Alto, CA, USA, in print.
M. Brambilla, S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, I. Manolescu. “Process Modeling in Web Applications”, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2006, in print.
M. Brambilla, S. Ceri, S. Comai, P. Fraternali, I. Manolescu. “Specification and design of workflow-driven hypertexts”, Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), Rinton Press, 1(2) April, 2003, pp. 163-182.
M. Brambilla. “Extending hypertext conceptual models with process-oriented primitives”, Conceptual Modeling - ER 2003, 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Chicago, IL, USA, October 13-16, 2003, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2813, Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-20299-4, pp. 246-262.
M. Brambilla, S. Ceri, S. Comai, P. Fraternali, I. Manolescu. "Specification and design of workflow-driven hypertexts", poster at WWW'03, Budapest, Hungary, 2003

Contacts

Marco Brambilla: mbrambil@elet.polimi.it