Using Process Models for the Design of Service-Oriented Architectures: Methodology and E-Commerce Case Study

Oliver Thomas, Katrina Leyking, Florian Dreifus
2008 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008)  
This article explains the importance of business process management for service orientation and illustrates how process models can be used for the design and realization of service-oriented architectures. We will introduce a multi-level concept consisting of a design, a configuration and an execution level. The approach presented here, illustrated along the standards of EPC, BPMN, BPEL and WSDL, bridges the existing research gap between conceptual modeling and service-oriented IT support. The
more » ... quirements analysis from an online-mail order company in the consumer electronics sector serves as a use case. Results show that up to now, organizational aspects have been neglected in the SOA discussion.
doi:10.1109/hicss.2008.486 dblp:conf/hicss/ThomasLD08 fatcat:oyejr6wgpvh3vm7v36utmeetym