A Pattern-Based Architecture for Dynamically Adapting Business Processes

The need to adapt a business process in applications has been a topic of interest in the recent years. Several approaches offer solutions to it. But, a limitation of most existing ones is the tight coupling of the adaptation logic with the execution one inside the engine implementation. In addition, they use the adaptation of business process only in the implementation phase (at runtime). To address these problems, we propose an architecture to develop a business process adaptation system. This architecture introduces modularity with an approach based on design patterns. We use some patterns to separate the adaptation logic and the functional one, and to address the adaptation at both the design phase and the implementation one. We show the feasibility of the proposed approach through the TRAP/BPEL