TY - JOUR T1 - VE Architect-Driven Service-Oriented Business Network Process Realization TT - JF - ITRC JO - ITRC VL - 2 IS - 4 UR - http://ijict.itrc.ac.ir/article-1-249-en.html Y1 - 2010 SP - 41 EP - 53 KW - Semi-automatic realization of business network process KW - Service-oriented Business Network Process KW - Ontology-based partner selection KW - Instant virtual enterprise KW - BPEL process N2 - Business opportunities are not permanent. Enterprises to instantly meet them collaborate with each other through realizing business network processes (BNP) in which their activities are done with various partners within a network. Recently, these business network processes are enabled with Service-Oriented technologies, that we call them Service-Oriented Business Network Process (SOBNP). In today's dynamic and changing environment Virtual Enterprise (VE) architects require a flexible framework through which they could design and realize SOBNP instantly. In this theme, there exist a number of frameworks that constitute the SOBNP, but they almost neglect two salient issues: a) Covering and incorporating high-level (i.e. business level) and low-level (i.e. technical level) requirement in business process creation; b) Adjusting to the VE architect without deep knowledge of computer science. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to propose a framework and related tools and techniques to constitute SOBNP, as a main building block of Instant Virtual Enterprise (IVE), which address two above-mentioned issues. The framework namely SOBNP Realization consists of three phases including requirements specification, ontology-based partner search and selection, and BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) process synthesis. A prototype system is implemented to demonstrate the concept of VE architect-driven SOBNP realization in IVE. M3 ER -