From BPMN business process models to SoaML service models: A transformation-driven approach

Business process modeling, simulation, deployment, execution and evaluation support have been improved in last years, through research efforts from both the academic field and industry. Organizations are now aware of the importance of explicitly defining the business processes of which their businesses are comprised realizing them by means of services. Service support helps to reduce the gap between the areas of Business and Information Technology (IT), thus easing the communication and understanding of business needs. Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Computing (SOC) and Model Driven Development (MDD) paradigms are integrated, based on standards and tools which support them. MINERVA is a framework that aims to provide such an integrated solution. In this paper we present the MINERVA proposal for automating transformations from BPMN to SoaML models in order to automatically generate services from business processes.