Change Management in Semantic Business Processes Modeling

Keeping IT align with business is an important task in an agile business environment which is related to change management in software development. We present a methodology and system for changing SOA-based business process implementation. We distinguish two layers: at the design layer processes are...

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Main Authors: Tripathi, U.K., Hinkelmann, K.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Business communication
Computer science
Environmental management
Ontologies
Process design
Service oriented architecture
Software development management
Software reusability
Software systems
Web services
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Summary:Keeping IT align with business is an important task in an agile business environment which is related to change management in software development. We present a methodology and system for changing SOA-based business process implementation. We distinguish two layers: at the design layer processes are modeled in the ontology-based semantic markup language for Web services OWL-S. For execution the processes are translated into BPEL. At the core of our system is a central change management component. We have implemented some generic transformation functions that can be composed to realize any configuration and reconfiguration of process modeled in OWL-S. Finally, we demonstrate our approach with an example e-government
ISSN:1541-0056
2640-7485
DOI:10.1109/ISADS.2007.25