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Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is considered as an implementation for business processes (BP). However, the relation between SOA and BPs is usually inspected in one direction only. In this chapter, we investigate the bi-directional relation between web services and business processes, and explore potential benefits therefrom. In particular, we introduce a novel approach to generate additional information about web services based on the configurations of business processes that consume these web services. This information is then used to enhance and smooth the modeling and configuration of future business processes. Through our approach, we can generate three types of information from consumers’ business processes, namely annotations, context, and relations among web services. To evaluate our approach, we use the SAP reference model and we show the results in this chapter.
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There are other related approaches that share similar underlying concepts.
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This is a comprehensive definition for Definition 1.2
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The authors conducted this work during their stay at Hasso-Plattner-Institut at University of Potsdam, Germany
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AbuJarour, M., Awad, A. (2014). Web Services and Business Processes: A Round Trip. In: Bouguettaya, A., Sheng, Q., Daniel, F. (eds) Web Services Foundations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7518-7_1
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