Distributed Resource Management System for Business Process Management Systems

Abstract

Business Process Management is a discipline which maps human tasks and non human tasks according to a predefined workflow in a way that technical and non technical people in the organization can administrate, monitor and communicate effectively and efficiently. Considerable amount of bpm software are available to automate business processes. When business becomes more complex and needed to expand, single BPM server may not be significantly sufficient to tackle with all client requests. Therefore we propose a novel approach by extending some existing patterns and introducing some new patterns to allocate existing resources within the organization optimally within BPM cluster to satisfy dynamically changing requirements and organizational policies. Focusing on that objective paper surveys on workflow patterns, limitations of existing patterns to fit with a BPM cluster, distributed nature of BPM architecture and a utilization of Rule based solution via patterns to the prevailing issue. By implementing a DRMS, our work suggests a conceptual design abstraction which will ultimatly add more management feasibility than managing individual BPM systems separately with the availability of a global view of all BPM systems and a dynamic rule based pattern execution.