Article in Proceedings INPROC-2005-120

BibliographyHepp, Martin; Leymann, Frank; Domingue, John; Wahler, Alexander; Fensel, Dieter: Semantic Business Process Management: A Vision Towards Using Semantic Web Services for Business Process Management.
In: Lau, Francis C. M. (ed.); Lei, Hui (ed.); Meng, Xiaofeng (ed.); Wang, Min (ed.): IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 535-540, english.
IEEE Computer Society, October 2005.
ISBN: 0-7695-2430-3; DOI: 10.1109/ICEBE.2005.110.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaK.1 (The Computer Industry)
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).

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, Architecture of Application Systems
Entry dateApril 30, 2008
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