A semantics-based protocol for business process transactions

  • Authors:

  • Dongwoo Kang;Sunjae Lee;Kwangsoo Kim;Jae Yeol Lee

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept of Industrial and Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyungbuk, South Korea;Dept of Industrial and Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyungbuk, South Korea;Dept of Industrial and Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyungbuk, South Korea;Dept of Industrial Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • ASWC'06 Proceedings of the First Asian conference on The Semantic Web
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A Business Process Management System (BPMS) requires transaction management to guarantee reliability of the business process transactions Several transaction protocols have been suggested for the transaction management, but they are heterogeneous This heterogeneity interrupts message exchanges among BPMSs which use different transaction protocols, so that the interoperability among the BPMSs cannot be guaranteed To solve this problem, this paper suggests a semantics-based protocol for business process transactions The suggested protocol is composed of the static semantics and the operational semantics In the context of the static semantics, transaction states and messages are defined using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) In the context of the operational semantics, state transitions of business process transactions are defined using the Abstract State Machine (ASM) The suggested approach is expected to enhance interoperability among heterogeneous BPMSs, to increase the understandability for the transaction protocols, and to support automatic transaction execution and systematic transaction monitoring.