Title :
Semantic business process management: a vision towards using semantic Web services for business process management
Author :
Hepp, Martin ; Leymann, Frank ; Domingue, John ; Wahler, Alexander ; Fensel, Dieter
Author_Institution :
DERI Innsbruck
Abstract :
Business process management (BPM) is the approach to manage the execution of IT-supported business operations from a business expert´s view rather than from a technical perspective. However, the degree of mechanization in BPM is still very limited, creating inertia in the necessary evolution and dynamics of business processes, and BPM does not provide a truly unified view on the process space of an organization. We trace back the problem of mechanization of BPM to an ontological one, i.e. the lack of machine-accessible semantics, and argue that the modeling constructs of semantic Web services frameworks, especially WSMO, are a natural fit to creating such a representation. As a consequence, we propose to combine SWS and BPM and create one consolidated technology, which we call semantic business process management (SBPM)
Keywords :
business data processing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); organisational aspects; semantic Web; BPM; IT-supported business operation; SBPM; business process management; ontological problem; organizational aspect; semantic Web services; semantic business process management; Business communication; Business process re-engineering; Disaster management; Knowledge management; Ontologies; Semantic Web; Space technology; Systems engineering and theory; Technology management; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
e-Business Engineering, 2005. ICEBE 2005. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2430-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICEBE.2005.110