Bridging the gap between business processes and service composition through service choreographies

Abstract

Inter-organizational business processes implementations using service composition approaches are being more and more used. We want to reduce the semantic gap that exists between both worlds (business processes and services) through service choreographies, a composition approach that we think it is semantically close to multi-party business processes. We rely on modeling techniques as abstraction layers and view separation to achieve our goal. Our start point is a web service choreography meta-model presented in three abstraction layers where each layer is divided in a structural and a behavioral view. The meta-model can be used in a top-down or a bottom-up approach to make a progressive transition between the business process and the service world. © 2011 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.