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Title

Analysis of business process integration in Web service context

Author(s)

Shen, Jun;  Grossmann, Georg;  Yang, Yun;  Stumptner, Markus;  Schrefl, Michael;  Reiter, Thomas

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.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Future Generation Computer Systems: the International Journal of Grid Computing Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 23, no. 3 (2007), pp. 283-294

Publication year

2007

Keyword(s)

Business process management;  Web services;  Semantic web;  Specification integration;  UML meta-models

Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

0167-739X

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2006.05.007

Copyright

Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. Accepted manuscript reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

Research Projects

Agent based coordination and negotiation technologies for decentralised service workflow management, Australian Research Council grant number DP0663841
Integration of object behavior in federated information systems, Australian Research Council grant number DP0210654

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