Compatibility and Conversion

Compatibility and Conversion of different Grid Workflow Description Languages

During the second workpackage meeting on July 15th 2005 in Barcelona, the CoreGRID task 5.3 concretized the plans for the establishment of a research group about compatibility and conversion of different Grid workflow description languages. Objective of this research group will be a joint survey about compatibility and conversion (mapping) issues between commonly available workflow description languages. The initial core partners for this research group are Fraunhofer FIRST, University of Münster, UNICAL, and INFN.

Contact

If you want to participate at this research group, please contact Andreas Hoheisel (bassheide).

Survey about existing work in this field

Mappings among languages and formalisms

Mappings between formalisms

• Workflow patterns -> UML http://www.bpmn.org/Documents/Notations%20and%20Workflow%20Patterns.pdf
• Workflow patterns -> BPML http://www.bpmn.org/Documents/Notations%20and%20Workflow%20Patterns.pdf
• State Machine -> Petri Net: If every transition in a Petri net has exactly one input place and exactly one output place, the net is in effect a state machine.
• more to be included

From formalisms to languages

• BPMN -> BPEL http://www.bpmn.org/Documents/Mapping%20BPMN%20to%20BPEL%20Example.pdf
• more to be included

Mappings between languages

• BPEL 1.1 -> PNML (Petri Net): bpel2pn, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• more to be included