Abstract—The highly competitive and rapidly changing nature of the current business environment creates tremendous pressure on organizations to collaborate. This led to utterly different type of business eco-system in which individual organizations in collaborative business services increasingly demand for a collaborative business process that can easily adapt to changes. As a result, the development and management of organization’s IT infrastructures that can able to cope up with the requirements of dynamic and flexible business environments are challenging. Service-based approach can enhance the development and management of collaborative processes through service abstraction to satisfy the needs of today’s dynamic business environment. Service-oriented computing paradigm uses service models to represent the requirements of continuously changing business needs through service abstraction and use platform independent interaction nature of web service and its enabling available technologies for implementation. Hence, in this paper we discussed the collaborative BPM trends and concepts, technologies and proposed a generic framework to realize automatic conversion of service models into Web services in order to support dynamic and adaptive development of collaborative business process and deploy them over the internet through a web service standards platform.

Index Terms—Business Process Management, Collaborative business process, Web services, Service-oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing.

Teshome Megersa Bekele is with Computer Science at the Institute of Technology of Arba Minch University, Ethiopia.
Weihua Zhu is with college of Software Engineering of Chongqing University, China.

Cite: Teshome Megersa Bekele and Weihua Zhu, Member, IACSIT, "Realizing Automatic Conversion of Service Models into Web Services towards Dynamic and Adaptive Business Process Management," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 201-209, 2011.