Towards the ontology-based transformation of business process models
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management
The business process modelling ontology
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management
Semantic web service engineering for semantic business process management
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management
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Semantic Business Process Management is a recent and promising research area devoted to extending the results from Semantic Web Services -- i.e., the application of ontology-based modelling and reasoning to Web Services -- to Business Process Management, which is these days often realised using Service-Oriented Architectures. One important task for Semantic Business Process Management is the addition of corresponding semantic annotations to the business-oriented view on processes. Since, however, the Semantic Web approach, realised using ontologies, is not simply to represent conceptualisations in the style of a data model, but to embody relationships and inferences over such conceptualisations, an equally important task to realise Semantic Business Process Management is hence to relate business-oriented and IT/service-oriented views of processes ontologically. Previous work has shown how an ontology language rich enough to encode rules can provide a relationship between an abstract ontology for business processes and a low-level ontological representation of process behaviour providing behavioural semantics for these business processes. In this paper we show how business-oriented and execution-oriented ontological representations of business processes can similarly be related.