Transition between process models (BPMN) and service models (WS-BPEL and other standards): A systematic review

BPMN and BPEL have become de facto standards for modeling of business processes and implementation of business processes via Web services. There is a quintessential problem of discrepancy between these two approaches as they are applied in different phases of lifecycle and their fundamental concepts are different — BPMN is a graph based language while BPEL is basically a block-based programming language. This paper shows basic concepts and gives an overview of research and ideas which emerged during last two years, presents state of the art and possible future research directions. Systematic literature review was performed and critical review was given regarding the potential of the given solutions.