Using Isolation Spheres for Cooperative Processes Correctness

Managing cooperation in business processes still represents a challenge because of several problems. Concurrent access to common data, coherence of the results, organisation and cooperation correctness are some of them. Looking at isolation problems in the database world and at their solutions using SQL isolation levels, we try to adapt them to the cooperative dimension of processes. In this paper, we identify the phenomena that happen during cooperation in business processes. Then we propose a solution based on isolation spheres to ensure correctness of cooperative processes and customise the exclusion control of the different cooperation phenomena