Diversifying and improving business process management systems by service cooperation middleware

Emerging service oriented business process management (BPM) systems require efficient middleware infrastructure. However, current techniques for middleware are not optimal for that because they all do not have service-oriented natures themselves. This paper introduces a novel service cooperation middleware (SCM), which is designed to meet such requirements. It improves the development and integration of loosely coupled service oriented BPM system by applying several concepts such as control flow semantic and projection operation, etc. Furthermore, based on the SCM architecture, the related process integration suit viz. ISProcessIntegration (PI) can be widely applied into all kinds of scenes, for example EAI, B2B, B2C, P2P, cluster, with different topologies.