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Towards an ontology for process monitoring and mining
- In Workshop: Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM 2007), 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC
, 2007
"... Abstract. Business Process Analysis (BPA) aims at monitoring, diagnosing, simulating and mining enacted processes in order to support the analysis and enhancement of process models. An effective BPA solution must provide the means for analysing existing e-businesses at three levels of abstraction: t ..."
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Abstract. Business Process Analysis (BPA) aims at monitoring, diagnosing, simulating and mining enacted processes in order to support the analysis and enhancement of process models. An effective BPA solution must provide the means for analysing existing e-businesses at three levels of abstraction: the Business Level, the Process Level and the IT Level. BPA requires semantic information that spans these layers of abstraction and which should be easily retrieved from audit trails. To cater for this, we describe the Process Mining Ontology and the Events Ontology which aim to support the analysis of enacted processes at different levels of abstraction spanning from fine grain technical details to coarse grain aspects at the Business Level. 1
Repository for Business Processes and Arbitrary Associated Metadata
"... Abstract. We have published a repository for storing business processes and associated metadata. The BPEL Repository is an Eclipse plug-in originally built for BPEL business processes and other related XML data. It provides a framework for storing, finding and using these documents. Other research p ..."
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Abstract. We have published a repository for storing business processes and associated metadata. The BPEL Repository is an Eclipse plug-in originally built for BPEL business processes and other related XML data. It provides a framework for storing, finding and using these documents. Other research prototypes can reuse these features and build on top of it. The repository can easily be extended with new types of XML documents. It provides a Java API for manipulating the XML files as Java objects hiding the serialization and de-serialization from a user. This has the advantage that the user can manipulate the data as more convenient Java objects, although the data is stored as XML files compliant with the standard XML schemas. The data can be queried as Java objects using an object-oriented query language, namely the Object Constraint Language (OCL). Moreover, the flexible design allows the OCL query engine to be replaced with another engine based on other query language. 1
Model-Driven Design and Development of Semantic Web Service Applications
"... This paper proposes a model-driven methodology to design and develop semantic Web service applications and their components, described according to the emerging WSMO standard. In particular, we show that business processes and Web engineering models have sufficient expressive power to support the se ..."
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This paper proposes a model-driven methodology to design and develop semantic Web service applications and their components, described according to the emerging WSMO standard. In particular, we show that business processes and Web engineering models have sufficient expressive power to support the semi-automatic extraction of semantic descriptions (i.e., WSMO ontologies, goals, Web services, and mediators), thus partially hiding the complexity of dealing with semantics. Our method is based on existing models for the specification of business processes (BPMN) combined with Web engineering models for designing and developing semantically rich Web applications (WebML). The proposed approach leads from an abstract view of the business needs to a concrete implementation of the application, by means of several design steps; high level models are transformed into software components. Our framework increases the efficiency of the whole design process, yielding to the construction of semantic Web service applications spanning over several enterprises.
Ontology-based representation of compliance requirements for service processes
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC BUSINESS PROCESS AND PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (SBPM 2007)
, 2007
"... Service processes are becoming increasingly essential in modern economies as traditional, production-oriented industries decline. When comparing service processes to standard business processes, a major distinction is that the
quality of their result, i.e., the service produced, cannot be measured i ..."
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Service processes are becoming increasingly essential in modern economies as traditional, production-oriented industries decline. When comparing service processes to standard business processes, a major distinction is that the
quality of their result, i.e., the service produced, cannot be measured in advance. Therefore, the compliance of the service process with quality standards plays an important role in convincing the customer that the services rendered will result in the quality specified. However, the check for compliance is still a tedious task. To address this situation, an ontology-based approach for representing service processes and checking their compliance is proposed. It is based on two ontologies: one to represent the service processes and the other to store the
compliance requirements. The process representation ontology uses three so-called views to appropriately represent the service processes. The ontology for storing the compliance requirements differentiates syntactic, semantic and pragmatic requirements.
Meronymy-based Aggregation of Activities in Business Process Models
"... Abstract. As business process management is increasingly applied in practice, more companies document their operations in the form of process models. Since users require descriptions of one process on various levels of detail, there are often multiple models created for the same process. Business pr ..."
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Abstract. As business process management is increasingly applied in practice, more companies document their operations in the form of process models. Since users require descriptions of one process on various levels of detail, there are often multiple models created for the same process. Business process model abstraction emerged as a technique reducing the number of models to be stored: given a detailed process model, business process model abstraction delivers abstract representations for the same process. A key problem in many abstraction scenarios is the transition from detailed activities in the initial model to coarse-grained activities in the abstract model. This transition is realized by an aggregation operation clustering multiple activities to a single one. So far, humans decide on how to aggregate, which is expensive. This paper presents a semi-automated approach to activity aggregation that reduces the human effort significantly. The approach takes advantage of an activity meronymy relation, i.e., part-of relation defined between activities. The approach is semi-automated, as it proposes sets of meaningful aggregations, while the user still decides. The approach is evaluated by a real-world use case. 1
Ontology-Based Querying of Composite Services
- In Business System Management and Engineering, BSME 2010, LNCS 7350
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"... Abstract. Enterprises are evolving towards advanced forms of cooperation and networking. This kind of tight cooperation requires the creation of global Busi-ness Processes (i.e., cross-enterprise composite services) composed starting from a set of existing local processes (exposed, in turn, as servi ..."
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Abstract. Enterprises are evolving towards advanced forms of cooperation and networking. This kind of tight cooperation requires the creation of global Busi-ness Processes (i.e., cross-enterprise composite services) composed starting from a set of existing local processes (exposed, in turn, as services) found in different enterprises. To this end, in this chapter we present an ontology-based approach for querying business process repositories for the retrieval of process fragments to be reused in the composition of new business processes. The pro-posed solution is based on a synergic use of a business process modelling framework (BPAL) to represent the workflow logic of business processes, and business ontologies, aimed at capturing the semantics of a business scenario. Both components are grounded in logic programming and therefore it is possi-ble to apply effective reasoning methods to query the knowledge base stemming from the fusion of the two.
Policy-Based Semantic Compliance Checking for Business Process Management
"... Abstract: Compliance management, risk analysis, and auditing are disciplines that are critical for large scale distributed enterprise systems. The way these complex systems are developed and deployed makes the management and enforcement of enterprise goals or policies a hard task. This is also true ..."
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Abstract: Compliance management, risk analysis, and auditing are disciplines that are critical for large scale distributed enterprise systems. The way these complex systems are developed and deployed makes the management and enforcement of enterprise goals or policies a hard task. This is also true for compliance management of business processes (BPs). Such an observation is emphasized if we give compliance management the scope of the whole enterprise model. In this paper we explain our approach to modeling compliance measures based on policies and present a framework for managing and enforcing compliance policies on enterprise models and BPs. We discuss our ideas in the context of a semantically-enabled environment and discuss why leveraging compliance checking to a semantic level enhances compliance management. 1
Semantic Business Process Management: Scaling up the Management of Business Processes
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A Framework for Querying in Business Process Modelling
"... Abstract: In order to respond quickly to changing market requirements, a business organisation needs to increase the level of agility in all phases of the business process engineering chain. Business process (BP) modelling is the first and most important phase in this chain. Designing a new and rede ..."
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Abstract: In order to respond quickly to changing market requirements, a business organisation needs to increase the level of agility in all phases of the business process engineering chain. Business process (BP) modelling is the first and most important phase in this chain. Designing a new and redesigning an existing process model is a highly complex, time consuming and error prone task. In this work, we contribute to BP modelling by designing and implementing a framework for querying in business process modelling which i) supports decision making, ii) facilitates reuse of modelling artefacts and iii) helps ensuring compliance of models to relevant regulations. 1
