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The Internet has catered for the transformation of traditional
stovepiped service companies into global service networks fostering
co-production of value to more effectively and efficiently satisfy
the ever-growing demands of mundane customers. The catalyst of this
change is the happenstance of Service Oriented Computing, providing
a natural distributed computing technology paradigm for implementing
and evolving such highly distributed networks of autonomous trading
partners with coordinate and cooperative actions. However, how to
faithfully (re-)map service networks, including value flows and
inter-party interactions, to business processes and service
realizations and vice-versa is still partly terra incognita. In this
paper, we introduce a semi-automatic model transformation approach
for creating the abstract business processes that take place between
trading partners from models representing the service networks,
assuming extremely limited human-involvement focused on selecting
reusable transformation patterns. This approach is explored and
validated using a realistic case study reflecting best practices in
the telecommunications industry.
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