Using MPMR to Support Developing Web Service Applications for Enterprises

As a temporary alliance of enterprises, a virtual enterprise(VE) is tended to share skills and integrate business processes from different firms for customized business requirements. Since it is hard for end-users to combine heterogeneous business processes and obtain Web service-based solutions, this paper proposes MPMR (Metamodel for Process Model Registration) to register business process and Web service in a unified and normative manner and then enable semantic interoperation between them. In this way, the MPMR-based registration information of them can be used to help smoothly translate professional business process requirements into the corresponding solution based on Web services. Finally, a typical case study in urban transportation is demonstrated to show the practice of using MPMR to support development of Web service applications for a VE or the participating enterprises.