Title: Querying and Monitoring Business Processes
Anat Eyal
University of Pennsylvania

Abstract
In this talk we present two query languages: BP-QL and BP-Mon.

BP-QL (Business Processes Query Language) is a novel query language for
querying business processes. It is based on an intuitive model of business
processes, an abstraction of the BPEL standard and allows users to query
business processes visually, in a manner very analogous to how such
processes are typically specified. In the talk we describe the query
language as well as its underlying formal model. We also present our
implementation, which complies with real life standards for business process
specifications, XML, and Web services, and is used in the BP-QL system.

BP-Mon (Business processes Monitoring), extends the BP-QL platform to
monitor business processes executions using a query language. BP-Mon allows
users to visually define monitoring tasks and associated reports, using a
simple intuitive interface, similar to those used for designing
BPEL processes. We describe the BP-Mon language and implementation and
describe our optimization techniques. An interesting feature of the
implementation is that BP-Mon queries are translated to BPEL processes that
run on the same execution engine as the monitored processes.