Authors:
Saartje Brockmans
;
Marc Ehrig
;
Agnes Koschmider
;
Andreas Oberweis
and
Rudi Studer
Affiliation:
Institute AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Keyword(s):
Business Processes, Petri nets, Ontologies, OWL DL, UML.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
This paper presents a method for semantically aligning business processes. We provide a representation of Petri nets in the ontology language OWL, to semantically enrich the business process models. On top of this, we propose a technique for semantically aligning business processes to support (semi)automatic interconnectivity of business processes. This semantic alignment is improved by a background ontology modeled with a specific UML Profile allowing to visually model it. The different parts of our proposal, which reduces communication efforts and solves interconnectivity problems, are discussed.