Mapping Web services specifications to process ontology: opportunities and limitations

Author

Shen, Jun ; Yang, Yun ; Lalwani, Bharat

Author_Institution

Center for Internet Comput. & E-Commerce, Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Melbourne, Vic., Australia

fYear

2004

fDate

26-28 May 2004

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

235

Abstract

There are many XML based workflow and process modeling languages like XPDL, BPEL4WS etc. that can be used to define workflow and business processes in the Web services world. However, the use of XML makes the meaning of the processes ambiguous with limited capability to describe the relationships (semantics, schemas or ontologies) with respect to objects. Put into action, it becomes obvious that the integration of Web services will be hardly achieved without certain schema matching mechanisms supported by higher level abstraction. In this paper, the authors have developed a tool to support the mapping of business processes defined in BPEL4WS onto DAML-S based process ontology. This will overcome the weaknesses of the evolving BPEL4WS language; provide a powerful way to describe the objects and their relationships; and reduce the overhead of combinations required when mapping a BPEL4WS specification to other process definition languages.

Keywords

Internet; XML; data models; workflow management software; BPEL4WS; DAML-S based process ontology; Web services specifications; XML; business process mapping; business processes; higher level abstraction; process modeling languages; process ontology; schema matching mechanisms; tool; workflow processes; Companies; Distributed computing; Information technology; Logic; Microstrip; Ontologies; Simple object access protocol; Web and internet services; Web services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 2004. FTDCS 2004. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2118-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.2004.1316621

Filename

1316621