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24 JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS, VOL. 3, NO. 1, JANUARY 2008 Life Cycle for Change Management in Business Processes using Semantic Technologies Uttam Kumar Tripathi Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kanpur, India Email: uttam.tripathi@ Knut Hinkelmann and Daniela Feldkamp University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland Email: {knut.hinkelmann, daniela.feldkamp}@fhnw.ch Abstract— In a fast changing market environment the task of reducing the downtime for change management of BusinessBusiness business processes has high importance. Ensuring that IT reflects the updated business requirement is an important task related to change management in software development. We present a methodology and system for changing SOA-based business process implementation. We InformationInformation distinguish two layers: At the design layer processes are TechnologyTechnology modeled in the ontology-based semantic markup language Figure 1. Aligning IT with Business for web services OWL-S. For execution the processes are translated into BPEL. At the core of our system are a In recent years there is a trend towa