Towards Dependable Business Processes with Fault-Tolerance Approach

The management and automation of business processes have become an essential tasks within IT organizations. Companies could deploy business process management systems to automatize their business processes. BPMS needs to ensure that those are as dependable as possible. Fault tolerance techniques provide mechanisms to decrease the risk of possible faults in systems. In this paper, a framework for developing business processes with fault tolerance capabilities is provided. The framework presents different solutions in the fault tolerance scope. The solutions have been developed using a practical example and some results have been obtained, compared and discussed.

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