Workshop Paper: An Ontology for Executable Business Processes

Bibliography

Jörg Nitzsche, Daniel Wutke & Tammo van Lessen: “An Ontology for Executable Business Processes”, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM 2007) held in conjunction with the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007) Innsbruck, Austria, June 7, 2007, 2007, 52–63.

Keywords: Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM),Ontologies, WSML

Abstract

The Web Service Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) is the de facto standard for describing workflow-like compositions of Web services, so-called Web service orchestrations. In this paper an ontology for executable BPEL processes is presented, which reflects both the natural language description and the syntax given in the specification. The ontology makes BPEL process models accessible at a semantic level and thus to intelligent queries and machine reasoning.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{INPROC-2007-23,
  author = {Nitzsche, Jörg and Wutke, Daniel and van Lessen, Tammo},
  title = {An Ontology for Executable Business Processes},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM 2007) held in conjunction with the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007) Innsbruck, Austria, June 7, 2007},
  editor = {Hepp, Martin and Hinkelmann, Knut and Karagiannis, Dimitris and Klein, Rüdiger and Stojanovic, Nenad},
  address = {Innsbruck},
  publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  institution = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Germany},
  pages = {52–63},
  etype = {Workshop Paper},
  month = {jun},
  year = {2007},
  issn = {1613-0073},
  keywords = {Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM),Ontologies, WSML},
  language = {English},
  cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation},
  department = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
  abstract = {The Web Service Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) is the de facto standard for describing workflow-like compositions of Web services, so-called Web service orchestrations. In this paper an ontology for executable BPEL processes is presented, which reflects both the natural language description and the syntax given in the specification. The ontology makes BPEL process models accessible at a semantic level and thus to intelligent queries and machine reasoning.},
  url = {http://www.taval.de/publications/INPROC-2007-23}
}