Towards a task-oriented, policy-driven business requirements specification for web services

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Gorton;Stephan Reiff-Marganiec

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

  • Venue:
  • BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Dynamic assembly of complex software is possible through automated composition of web services. Coordination scripts identify and orchestrate a number of services to fulfil a user or business goal. There exists a need for expressing high level business requirements in such a way that is accessible by businesses. Current solutions fail to include specifications at the appropriate level of abstraction. Our approach defines a graphical notation to depict a business goal in terms of objectives, which are refined by tasks. The specifics of each task as well as overarching business constraints are expressed by policies.