Paving the way towards semi-automatic design-time business process model obfuscation
Authors
E. Goettelmann, A. Ahmed-Nacer, S. Youcef, and C. Godart
Reference
in 22nd IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEEICWS 2015), June 27-July 2, 2015, New-York, USA, pp. 559-566, 2015
Description
Business process (BP) stakeholders want to enjoy the benefits of the cloud, but they are also reluctant to expose their BP models which express the know-how of their companies. To prevent such a know-how exposure, this paper proposes a design-time approach for transforming a BP model into BP fragments so that these BP fragments externalized in a multi-cloud context do not allow a cloud resource provider to understand a critical fragment of the company. While existing contributions on this topic remain at the level of principles, we propose an algorithm supporting automatically such a BP model transformation.
