Agent-Based Business Process Modeling and Execution: Steps Towards a Compiler-Virtual Machine Architecture

In this paper, we propose to rethink the dominant logic of how to model and execute business processes. We think that an actor or agent, respectively Subject-oriented, based approach supports in a much better way the fundamental nature of business processes. We present a proposal for a compiler architecture to model and execute business processes without the need for a dedicated business process management system. Instead, we propose to use a general purpose virtual machine to host the processes. We also propose a concrete path for realization based on the Erlang/Elixir solution system. We also discuss a method to define business processes as a set of formal natural language sentences.