OntoMetaWorkflow: an ontology for representing data and users in workflows

  • Authors:
  • Alvaro E. Prieto;Adolfo Lozano-Tello;José Luis Redondo-García

  • Affiliations:
  • Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Spain;Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Spain;Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CAEPIA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Advances in artificial intelligence: spanish association for artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Administrative processes are a type of business process commonly used in public institutions and large companies. These processes are generally characterized by involving the submission of some type of application form. This form must be considered at different stages by different users who need to handle current information of a dossier in order to provide new data in each activity until the end of the process. These processes are frequently reused because there are often similar processes within the organizations. The classification of the data managed by the activities and the categorization of the different users involved in every activity has great importance in these processes. The use of ontologies for modeling the workflows of administrative processes can provide significant improvements in this reuse process. In this paper, we describe OntoMetaWorkflow, a generic ontology to represent canonical workflow terms in the domain of administrative processes, and the methods that use it.