Business Process Management and Semantic Technologies
The Semantic Web: Real-World Applications from Industry, volume 6 of Semantic Web and Beyond, Springer, New York, (2008)DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-48531-7_10
Abstract
BPMS are increasingly enhanced by corresponding functionality to manage also Collaborative Business Processes (CBP). New challenges arise with incorporating collaborative business process functionality. First, the hitherto manual design of collaborative business processes is a tedious task which increases with the complexity of the partners' processes. Second, the partners' data formats will differ in most cases, such that a mediation is required. Realizing this mediation usually is a one-off and manual endeavor. In this chapter, we show how semantic technologies can be used to counter both challenges. For the Design of Collaborative Business Processes, we exploit the capabilities of Semantic Web Service composition engines.