Introduction to Information Systems: Essentials for the Internetworked E-Business Enterprise
Introduction to Information Systems: Essentials for the Internetworked E-Business Enterprise
Global Viewing of Heterogeneous Data Sources
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
The atoms, molecules and fibers of organizations
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: The language/action perspective
A Semantic Template Based Designer for Web Processes
ICWS '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
ICEBE '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
Business process development life cycle methodology
Communications of the ACM
Evaluating workflow process designs using cohesion and coupling metrics
Computers in Industry
Flexible Semantic-Based Service Matchmaking and Discovery
World Wide Web
P2S: A Methodology to Enable Inter-organizational Process Design through Web Services
CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Ontology-based methodology for e-service discovery
Information Systems
Goal annotation of process models for semantic enrichment of process knowledge
CAiSE'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
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Modern collaborating enterprises can be seen as borderless organizations whose processes are dynamically transformed and integrated with the ones of their partners (Internetworked Enterprises, IE), thus enabling the design of collaborative business processes. The adoption of Semantic Web and service-oriented technologies for implementing collaboration in such distributed and heterogeneous environments promises significant benefits. IE can model their own processes independently by using the Software as a Service paradigm (SaaS). Each enterprise maintains a catalog of available services and these can be shared across IE and reused to build up complex collaborative processes. Moreover, each enterprise can adopt its own terminology and concepts to describe business processes and component services. This brings requirements to manage semantic heterogeneity in process descriptions which are distributed across different enterprise systems. To enable effective service-based collaboration, IEs have to standardize their process descriptions and model them through component services using the same approach and principles. For enabling collaborative business processes across IE, services should be designed following an homogeneous approach, possibly maintaining a uniform level of granularity. In the paper we propose an ontology-based semantic modeling approach apt to enrich and reconcile semantics of process descriptions to facilitate process knowledge management and to enable semantic service design (by discovery, reuse and integration of process elements/constructs). The approach brings together Semantic Web technologies, techniques in process modeling, ontology building and semantic matching in order to provide a comprehensive semantic modeling framework.