Context-aware Process Support through Automatic Selection and Invocation of Semantic Web Services

Current technologies aimed at supporting processes – whether it is a business process or a learning process – are usually based on using a dedicated set of metadata to describe a process which refers to some specific data, used in the process. Process metadata is usually specific to a standard specification – like the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) or the IMS Learning Design Standard – while used process data is specific to a specific process context. These facts limit the re-usability of a process model across different standards and contexts. To overcome these issues, this paper describes an innovative semantic web service-oriented architecture aimed at changing this data- and metadata-based paradigm to a highly dynamic service-oriented approach g the idea of a semantic abstraction from process metadata as well as process data. This approach enables a dynamic adaptation to specific actor needs and es and supports the development of abstract semantic process models...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SOCA
• Authors: Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Business Process, Process Data, Process Metadata, SOCA 2007