Change Management in Semantic Business Processes Modeling

Keeping IT align with business is an important task in an agile business environment which is related to change management in software development. We present a methodology and system for changing SOA-based business process implementation. We distinguish two layers: at the design layer processes are modeled in the ontology-based semantic markup language for Web services OWL-S. For execution the processes are translated into BPEL. At the core of our system is a central change management component. We have implemented some generic transformation functions that can be composed to realize any configuration and reconfiguration of process modeled in OWL-S. Finally, we demonstrate our approach with an example e-government