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From Business Process Models to Service Interfaces

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Service-oriented architectures are often at the heart of modern enterprise information systems. Given that these systems are intended to support the day-to-day operations of an organization, a natural question to ask is how do we ensure that an organization’s service-oriented architecture is aligned with its business processes? This chapter dives into this question by sketching a method for analyzing a business process in view of enabling its execution on top of a service-oriented application landscape. The chapter also provides an overview of technology standards and platforms for implementing business processes in the context of service-oriented architectures.

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This research is funded by the EU Regional Development Fund via the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science and the European Commission via FP7 Project ACSI.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Marlon Dumas

  2. Faculty of Science and Technology BPM Group, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Thomas Kohlborn

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  1. Institute of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

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    Michael Rosemann

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Dumas, M., Kohlborn, T. (2015). From Business Process Models to Service Interfaces. In: vom Brocke, J., Rosemann, M. (eds) Handbook on Business Process Management 1. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45100-3_24

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