Business Process Management Architectures

This Chapter introduces traditional workflow management architectures. Based on a discussion of Web services as the current implementation of service-oriented architectures, Web services composition is discussed as the mechanism to realize business processes whose activities are implemented by Web services. To ease the composition of services, advanced service composition, which takes advantage of semantic annotations of services, is discussed. Chapter 8 completes by introducing data-driven process control and its realization in case handling systems.