Optimization of Business Processes in Service Oriented Architecture

This paper describes a method for the implementation and optimization of business processes in a service oriented architecture (SOA). A process specification is created by business people, and expressed in Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The specification is then translated into Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), and used by technical people as a reference process, which is subject to a series of transformations that change the internal process structure in order to improve the quality of the process execution. The behavior of each transformed process is verified automatically against the behavior of the reference process. The verification mechanism is based on a mapping from BPEL to Language of Temporal Ordering Specification (LOTOS), followed by a comparison of the trace set that is generated using a program dependence graph of the reference process and the trace set of the transformed one. When the design goals have been reached, the transformed BPEL process can be executed on a target SOA environment using a BPEL engine.