Querying Business Processes

Summary: BP-QL queries BPEL-style business processes through an intuitive visual language, including distributed processes whose components span providers. Its formal model and implementation characterize tractable versus intractable features and integrate XML/Web-service standards. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hea1b2068502ddbd8
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 9.1545187e-05
Overall Rank: 2,034 | 86.33%
DOI: 10.14778/1164130.1164168

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Catriel Beeri (The Hebrew University)
2. Anat Eyal (Tel Aviv University)
3. Simon Kamenkovich (Tel Aviv University)
4. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{beeri_vldb06,
        title = {{Querying Business Processes}},
        author = {Beeri, Catriel and Eyal, Anat and Kamenkovich, Simon and Milo, Tova},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        volume = {29},
        number = {1},
        pages = {343--354},
        doi = {10.14778/1164130.1164168},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1164130.1164168},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
943	Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities	2008	SIGMOD	0.00012945546
1,827	Querying Data Provenance	2010	SIGMOD	9.5545888e-05
2,711	Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective	2013	PODS	8.1038896e-05
6,357	Query-Based Monitoring of BPEL Business Processes	2007	SIGMOD	5.8092399e-05
7,237	Labeling Workflow Views with Fine-Grained Dependencies	2012	VLDB	5.5785819e-05
7,533	Querying and Monitoring Distributed Business Processes	2008	VLDB	5.5003978e-05
8,925	Monitoring Business Processes with Queries	2007	VLDB	5.2559789e-05
10,644	FlowPilot: A Suggestion System for Designing Scientific Workflows	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,658	Querying Contract Databases Based on Temporal Behavior	2011	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,690	Exploring the Coming Repositories of Reproducible Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities	2011	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,768	Searching Workflows with Hierarchical Views	2010	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,832	Goal-Oriented Web-site Navigation for On-line Shoppers	2009	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,865	Type Inference and Type Checking for Queries on Execution Traces	2008	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,901	Querying Web-Based Applications Under Models of Uncertainty	2008	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
305	A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion	1987	SIGMOD	0.0002159111
2,956	Business Process Cockpit	2002	VLDB	7.8080092e-05
3,458	A Verifier for Interactive, Data-driven Web Applications	2005	SIGMOD	7.284865e-05
4,618	Context-Sensitive Program Analysis as Database Queries	2005	PODS	6.4995364e-05
5,617	The G+/GraphLog Visual Query System	1990	SIGMOD	6.0637955e-05
13,035	Querying Business Processes with BP-QL	2005	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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