On Model-Driven Development of Mobile Business Processes

Web services are becoming an integral part of service and workflow systems even within mobile devices. A mobile business process is a special case of a business process where most of the human interaction is performed using mobile devices. Mobile business processes should be adaptable to different mobile devices and to support user interaction with different client applications. Requirements coming from mobility of devices addresses new challenges and interaction models to business process modeling and development. A proper tool support for process development is needed. Furthermore, while mobile business processes emphasize user interaction, a development process should support also creation of user interfaces based on process descriptions. In this paper, we identify characteristics of mobile business processes and propose a model-driven development (MDD) approach, which allows customization of user interfaces.