TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of business process integration in Web service context
AU - Shen, Jun
AU - Grossmann, Georg
AU - Yang, Yun
AU - Stumptner, Markus
AU - Schrefl, Michael
AU - Reiter, Thomas
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.dke.jku.at/index.html?/research/index.html
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33750813566
U2 - 10.1016/j.future.2006.05.007
DO - 10.1016/j.future.2006.05.007
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-739X
VL - 23
SP - 283
EP - 294
JO - Future Generation Computer Systems
JF - Future Generation Computer Systems
IS - 3
ER -