- Abstract:
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This paper aims to bridge works in two different communities: business process modelling and Semantic Web communities. The former techniques are rich, widely used but largely informal and often used centrally within an organisation; the latter techniques are novel, more formal, and although intended for wide spread use, it has only achieved relatively low adaptation rate by actual applications. Nevertheless, with the rapid growth on the use of the Internet, interoperability becomes a prominent issue both between applications and organisations. It is therefore important to bring the rich disciplines of the business process modelling methods to the more semantic based techniques. This paper therefore describes a structural and formal approach that matches and bridges two typical methodologies from the two communities: FBPML (a formal language that is a merger of standard business process languages of IDEF3 and PIF) and OWL-S (an emerging Semantic Web business process modelling standard). To achieve, it has deployed a formal method that allows FBPML to be translated to OWL-S via ontological based matching. This paper also discusses the fundament mis-matches between these two methodologies and other methodologies in the two communities in general, and how this may hinder a complete meaning-preserving automated translation.
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- 2007 by The University of Edinburgh. All Rights Reserved
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- Bibtex format
- @Article{EDI-INF-RR-0956,
- author = {
Gayathri Nadarajan
and Jessica Chen-Burger
},
- title = {Translating Fundamental Business Process Modelling Language to the Web Services Ontology through Lightweight Mapping},
- journal = {IET Software Journal (formerly IEE Proceedings Software Journal), Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 1-17.},
- publisher = {Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)},
- year = 2007,
- month = {Feb},
- volume = {1 (1)},
- pages = {1-17},
- doi = {10.1049/iet-sen:20060042},
- }
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