Title: An event-driven dynamic cross-layer business process compliance monitoring and analysis framework

Authors: Sridevi Saralaya; Rio G. D'Souza; Vishwas Saralaya

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, St. Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor, 575008 Mangaluru, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, St. Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor, 575008 Mangaluru, India ' Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Light House Hill Road, 575001 Mangaluru, India

Abstract: Any business process life-cycle should be monitored for adherence to compliance, so as to detect, analyse and recover from anomalies. Whenever a business process implemented as service-based system (SBS) deviates from compliance obligations, it is imperative to overcome anomalies so that the process is not adversely affected. This necessitates a monitoring and root-cause analysis process. Performance of the SBS is determined by factors such as goals and objectives of business layer; output data, execution time and number of services in service layer; processing load, storage capacity of the infrastructure layer. Current approaches are considered inadequate as they observe and verify adherence to properties in any one of the layers of the SBS. We propose a monitoring and root-cause analysis framework capable of congregating and correlating events from all layers of the SBS. The prototypical implementation based on event paradigm is non-invasive and introduces no overhead to the system under consideration.

Keywords: cross-layer monitoring; root-cause analysis; event-based monitoring; hierarchical service-based systems; dependencies.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2018.095568

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2018 Vol.29 No.3, pp.342 - 386

Received: 25 Nov 2016
Accepted: 18 Feb 2017
Published online: 11 Oct 2018 *

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