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Amoeba: a methodology for modeling and evolution of cross-organizational business processes

<09> This paper tackles the problem of how to make business processes tolerant of change. It proposes a radical alternative to the dominant conception of business processes as workflows, viewing them instead as compositions of interaction protocols that explicitly capture parties’ commitments. Commitments represent important business semantics absent in orchestration- and choreography-based models, with the key consequence that requirements changes can be accommodated in a principled way. ERC Advanced Grant Lucretius under Professor John Mylopoulos (U. Trento), which is investigating software evolution, is informed by Amoeba’s key ideas and demonstrates its wider software engineering significance. TOSEM IF=2.59.