Approach based on web services for business process adaptation

Business process lifecycle is chiefly divided into two phases namely modeling and execution. Therefore, flexibility of business process can be taken into account either at build-time or at runtime. The first kind is well supported mainly by declarative modeling paradigms. Nevertheless, many challenges are posed by the second kind of flexibility (such as at which level of abstraction can flexibility be expressed and by what criteria should it be performed) as well as by the business process adaptation when we consider the implementation phase of business process. In this context, our aim in this paper is to propose an approach based on web services in order to support business process adaptation during its implementation. The proposal is to implement as web services the manners in which activities are executed and that can be subject to change. Each manner refers to the actions implementing the current activity. It can then be adapted to execute the same business process in another organization. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.