Saida Boukhedouma

Work place: University of Science and Technologies Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria

E-mail: sboukhedouma@usthb.dz

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Biography

Saida Boukhedouma is a Teacher/Researcher at USTHB University, member of the ISI team in the LSI laboratory. Actually, her works are directed towards the flexibility of inter-organizational business processes using the SOA paradigm which is the main focus of her PHD thesis.

Author Articles
Service Based Cooperation Patterns to Support Flexible Inter-Organizational Workflows

By Saida Boukhedouma Mourad Oussalah Zaia Alimazighi Dalila Tamzalit

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2014.04.01, Pub. Date: 8 Mar. 2014

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a paradigm that provides important advantages like interoperability, reusability and flexibility, particularly beneficial for B2B applications. In the current paper, we consider specific architectures of inter-organizational workflows (IOWF) fairly widespread in the B2B area and implementing different cooperation schemas. Our aim is to propose new generic IOWF-architectures by using the SOA paradigm in order to obtain IOWF models flexible enough to ease their adaptation, evolution and reuse. For that, we introduce the concept of Service-Based Cooperation Pattern (SBCP) that supports the definition of IOWF models based on services. A SBCP is defined by three main dimensions: the distribution of services, the control of execution and the structure of interaction between services. Also, we define a concept of composite cooperation pattern based on the combination of elementary patterns. We illustrate our approach by a general description of our cooperation framework called “S-IOFLOW” that supports the implementation of IOWF models obeying to the described SBCP. Three main points characterize our approach: (i) the use of a pattern-based approach; (ii) the definition of composite patterns by reusing elementary ones and (iii) the support of several cooperation schemas with different types of control.

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