TY - GEN
T1 - User-friendly semantic annotation in business process modeling
AU - Born, Matthias
AU - Dörr, Florian
AU - Weber, Ingo
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Current problems in Business Process Management consist of terminology mismatches and unstructured and isolated knowledge representation in process models. Semantic Business Process Management aims at overcoming many of those weaknesses of Business Processes Management through the use of explicit semantic descriptions of process artifacts. However, this vision has a prerequisite: semantic annotations need to be added to the process models. In this paper, we present an approach that allows flexibly annotating semantics in a user-friendly way, by exposing ontological knowledge to the business user in appropriate forms and by employing matchmaking and filtering techniques to display options with high relevance only. By adding semantic information the precision of process models increases, ultimately supporting Web Service discovery and composition. As a proof-of-concept, the work has been implemented prototypically in a process modeling tool.
AB - Current problems in Business Process Management consist of terminology mismatches and unstructured and isolated knowledge representation in process models. Semantic Business Process Management aims at overcoming many of those weaknesses of Business Processes Management through the use of explicit semantic descriptions of process artifacts. However, this vision has a prerequisite: semantic annotations need to be added to the process models. In this paper, we present an approach that allows flexibly annotating semantics in a user-friendly way, by exposing ontological knowledge to the business user in appropriate forms and by employing matchmaking and filtering techniques to display options with high relevance only. By adding semantic information the precision of process models increases, ultimately supporting Web Service discovery and composition. As a proof-of-concept, the work has been implemented prototypically in a process modeling tool.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38149094934&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-77010-7_25
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-77010-7_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38149094934
SN - 9783540770091
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 260
EP - 271
BT - Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2007 Workshops - WISE 2007 International Workshops, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2007
Y2 - 3 December 2007 through 6 December 2007
ER -