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Using Web services for business process automation is an accepted approach in context of service-oriented architectures (SOA). Business process models are created by business experts usually not having an IT background and who are therefore not able to use the technical descriptions available for web services. In this paper, we show how we extended the market leading business process management suite ARIS to enable business experts to discover, assess, and select Web services for business process automation. We developed a structural and a semantic matching algorithm as well as a graphical user interface for Web service assessment. We use a schema to classify Web service discovery literature and we relate our work to it. Our completely integrated discovery tool helps bridging the gap between business and IT, because business experts can now discover Web services needed for business process automation on their own.
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Stein, S., Barchewitz, K., Kharbili, M.E. (2008). Enabling Business Experts to Discover Web Services for Business Process Automation. In: Gschwind, T., Pautasso, C. (eds) Emerging Web Services Technology, Volume II. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8864-5_3
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