Adaptive Business Protocol Support in Service Oriented B2B Collaborations

Service oriented architecture approach in general and the Web services technology in particular are becoming more and more important in modern networked organisations and virtual organisations (VO). However, it is not enough to have the business functionality of the partners packaged as (Web) services; there is also a need for business-aligned order of interaction between these services a.k.a. business protocols, which can also be reused. This paper discusses business protocol adaptivity aspects and suggests some ideas how to support the changes in the business protocols in implementations of the partners´ services (end-points)