Analysis of business process integration in Web service context

  • Authors:
  • Jun Shen;Georg Grossmann;Yun Yang;Markus Stumptner;Michael Schrefl;Thomas Reiter

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Technology and Computer Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia and School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Maw ...;School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia;Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Melbourne, Australia;School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia;School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia;School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The integration of Web services is a recent outgrowth of the Business Process integration field that will require powerful meta-schema matching mechanisms supported by higher level abstractions, such as UML meta-models. Currently, there are many XML-based workflow process specification languages (e.g. XPDL, BPEL) which can be used to define business processes in the Web services and Grid Computing world. However, with limited capability to describe the relationships (schemas or ontologies) between process objects, the dominant use of XML as a meta-data markup language makes the semantics of the processes ambiguous. OWL-S (Ontology Web Language for Services) exploits the semantic description power of OWL to build an ontology language for services. It therefore becomes a candidate for an inter lingua. In this paper, we propose an integration framework for business processes, which is applied to Web services defined in OWL-S.