Abstract
Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules offer a flexible, adaptive, and modular approach to realizing business processes. This article discusses the use of ECA rules for describing business processes in an executable manner. It investigates the benefits one hopes to derive from using ECA rules and presents the challenges in realizing business processes. These constitute a list of requirements for an (executable) business process description language, and we take them as a basis to investigate suitability of the concrete ECA rule language XChange in realizing a business process from the EU-Rent Case Study.

URL:
http://rewerse.net/publications/rewerse-publications.html#REWERSE-RP-2006-054

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{REWERSE-RP-2006-054,
	author = {Fran\c{c}ois Bry and Michael Eckert and Paula-Lavinia P\u{a}tr\^anjan and Inna Romanenko},
	title = {Realizing Business Processes with ECA Rules: Benefits, Challenges, Limits},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 4th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning, Budva, Montenegro (10th--11th June 2006)},
	year = {2006},
	volume = {4187},
	organization = {REWERSE},
	series = {LNCS},
	pages = {48--62},
	url = {http://rewerse.net/publications/rewerse-publications.html#REWERSE-RP-2006-054}
}