Business Process Management and the challenge of dynamic services

Abstract

Advances in mobile and embedded computing are presenting computing environment that embrace personalisation, mobility and real-time computing. As a result Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) has to adopt new methods of service security, service management and service execution. For the business process these adaptations yield challenges in terms of process modeling, delivery and execution. In order to make Business Process Management (BPM) work in practice in these new environments, what changes are needed in order to support increasingly dynamic and decentralised services in BPM?