Interaction Protocols Adaptation Based Coordination for Business Processes

This work deals with Interaction Protocol (IP) adaptation for Business Processes (BP). BP describes the coordination of the actions performed by involved participants. One possible way to deal with this coordination is the use of interaction protocols (such as contract net, negotiation or vote). In order to guarantee an efficient use of IP, we need to adapt them. In this paper, we propose an MDA (Model Driven Architecture) framework to support the IP adaptation. More precisely, we propose the conjointly use of version and context concepts to model the IP versions and their contexts. We also propose an ontology based method to facilitate the selection of an appropriate IP version among several. Finally, we propose a well-known crisis scenario called "Air Crash Management Process" to illustrate our solution.