28th September - 30th September 2008 | Vienna, Austria

Semantic Management of Business Processes in the Future Internet

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Tutorial 4
Semantic Management of Business Processes in the Future Internet
Sunday, September 28, half-day
Call for participation

Agata Filipowska I Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, PL
Marin Dimitrov I Ontotext Lab., Sirma Group Corp., Sofia, BG
Dumitru Roman I STI Innsbruck, AT

Abstract

The design of business processes and information systems within enterprises has undergone a big change in recent years. In order to meet the requirements of business for flexibility and dynamism, more and more often business process are implemented following SOA paradigm. Thus, traditional monolithic applications are replaced by small, reusable components i.e. services that proved to be a very efficient way for outsourcing and business collaboration in multiple domains. The vision that goes along with outsourcing on the basis of service-oriented architecture is that markets of IT services evolve towards dynamic business networks and an Internet of services. However, although the idea of SOA targets the need for adaptivness, existing SOA solutions are difficult to manage without a proper degree of automation. In order to address various drawbacks, the extension of BPM with semantics is proposed.

The proposed tutorial is to explain and demonstrate how the combination of technologies from the area of Business Process Management (BPM) and Semantic Web Services (SWS) can contribute to the vision of Internet of Services and multi-partners processes.

The tutorial will present the state of the art in the areas of BPM and SWS motivating the need for explicit use of semantics to overcome the Future Internet challenges. Next, a consolidated technical framework that integrates SWS and BPM technology will be demonstrated. The tutorial will be held by the BPM and SWS experts that actively work on integration of both technologies in the EU-funded SUPER project.

After having presented pure SWS tutorials as well as tutorials on the integration of SWS into BPM at previous conferences, we now propose the tutorial showing semantic management of processes between enterprises contributing to the vision of Internet of Services. We therewith follow the trend in the research community to focus on the applicability and integration of semantic technologies in the real-world, next to foundational research on ontologies and Semantic Web Services.

Outline

SESSION 1: Theory (Lecture Style)  

(1) Business Process Management in the Future Internet

This gives an overview of Business Process Management (BPM), covering:

  • Overview
  • BPM lifecycle
  • Process modelling notations (BPMN, EPC, etc.) and languages (BPEL4WS, etc.)
  • SOA Architectures for BPM
  • Choreography of multi-partners’ processes
  • Challenges and trends in the context of the future Internet

(2) Semantic Web Services

This provides an overview of the state of the art in Semantic Web Services SWS. In particular, we present the WSMO framework that serves as the basis for the integration of SWS into BPM technology. This section covers:

  • Semantic Web Services: approach & history 
  • SWS Frameworks, in particular the Web Service Modeling Ontology WSMO
  • Semantic techniques for discovery, composition, execution and mediation

(3) Integration – SBPM in the Internet of Services

On the basis of the preceding overviews, this section presents how the combination of technologies coming from Business Process Management (BPM) and Semantic Web Services (SWS) can contribute to the vision of Internet of Services and creation of multi-partners processes. In particular, this covers:

  • multi-party process modeling with semantics (ontologies and formal process languages)
  • goal-based process modeling and execution
  • envisioned benefits

 

SESSION 2: Demonstration

(4) Software Demonstration 

This section introduces and demonstrates the software. This consists of the following software: 

  • Semantic Business Process Modelling Tool
  • Semantic Business Process Execution  Environment
  • SWS execution environments: IRS and WSMX

Presenters

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Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of EconomicsPoznan, PL
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Agata Filipowska is a Teaching and Research Assistant at Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems. She teaches courses on business process modeling, software engineering and management information systems. Agata Filipowska has a Master of Science from Poznan University of Economics (received in 2004, Summa Cum Laude). From 2004 she has been involved in projects funded by European Commission - ASG, SUPER and USE-ME.GOV. Moreover, Agata Filipowska chaired Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Business Information Systems from 2004 to 2006. Her main areas of interest include information retrieval and filtering, information extraction and service oriented architectures.

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Sirma Group, Sofia, BG

Marin Dimitrov is a senior project manager at Ontotext Lab, the R&D division of Sirma Group, with more than 8 years of experience in the company. His work experience includes software and research in various areas, such as enterprise integration systems, e-commerce, information retrieval and extraction, ontology management, semantic web services and semantic business process management as well as experience in 5 EU IST research projects. Marin Dimitrov has a MSc degree in Computer Science and his research interests include human language technologies, semantics for business processes management and web services. He has more than 15 publications in different research areas.

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STI Innsbruck, AT

Dumitru Roman works as a researcher at STI Innsbruck (http://www.sti2.at) in the area of semantically-enabled service-oriented architectures. Since joining DERI he has been involved in several FP5 and FP6 EU funded projects, e.g. SWWS, DIP, SWING, SUPER, etc., in the area of semantic Web and Web services. Before joining DERI Innsbruck, he received a Diploma Engineer in Computer Science from the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Tutorial Format

Lecture-style enriched with demonstration of tools.

Intended Audience

The target audience of the proposed tutorial includes researchers as well as practitioners that work in the areas of BPM or SWS and are interested in the latest technological developments. Although no specific pre-knowledge is required to follow the tutorial, basic knowledge in BPM, ontologies, and Web services may make it easier to follow the tutorial and gain more benefits. However, as already mentioned, the tutorial is self-contained and all relevant information and knowledge necessary to understand the discussed topic is given.

The material to be handed out to the attendees consists of a booklet with the tutorial slide set and a CD with the software as well as further material. Before the tutorial day, we will also provide this material available for download on our tutorial website: http://www.ip-super.org/content/view/114/63/.

Requirements

We have no specific requirements.

Supplementary Materials

Information on the previous SUPER tutorials (as well as the tutorial materials) is available at: http://www.ip-super.org/content/view/114/63/

 









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