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A process-centric engineering Web services framework

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Collaborative and distributed engineering Web services are emerging as a viable alternative to the traditional design and engineering process automation. Existing approaches have limitations in supporting long-running engineering transactions, automatic engineering process orchestration and choreography, synchronous and asynchronous conversation, and geometric abstraction for transmission and sharing. In this paper, we present a process-centric engineering Web services framework to overcome these limitations by utilizing BPEL-based (business process execution language) process templates and coordination broker-based conversation support. This paper also discusses the synchronization of engineering Web services, which can be either peer-centric or process-centric to support long-running engineering transactions and conversation. The process orchestration and choreography broker works as a service dispatching and aggregation agent for executing process templates, which enables the individual activity of the engineering process to dynamically invoke one of the alternative Web services through the run-time process brokering. Further, the paper presents how to support collaboration over the running process using conversation policy .

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Chonnam National University, 300 Yongbong-dong, Buk-Gu, Gwangju, 500-757, South Korea

    Jae Yeol Lee

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea

    Sunjae Lee & Kwangsoo Kim

  3. Software Robot Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, South Korea

    Hyun Kim

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Lee, J., Lee, S., Kim, K. et al. A process-centric engineering Web services framework. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 26, 1173–1183 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-004-2365-3

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