Personalized Reuse of Business Process through the Metamodel for Process Model Registration

In service-oriented computing, business process is the foundation for developing Web services based applications. In order to facilitate service composition for personalized requests, it is needed to customize business process in an efficient and user-friendly way. Reuse of business process can benefit customization of processes. Since registration is the basis for reusing business process, this paper refines a general metamodel for process model registration to support reuse of heterogeneous business processes. In this way, common structure and semantic of various processes provided by the registration mechanism can help different users discover, reuse and reconstruct required business processes in different levels of abstraction and granularity.