From BPEL4WS to OWL-S: integrating e-business process descriptions

Shen, Jun; Yang, Yun; Zhu, Chuan; Wan, Caleb

doi:10.1109/scc.2005.54

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“…The transformation from BPEL to OWL-S has been implemented in the BPEL2OWL-S tool [12]. It maps specifications from BPEL to OWL-S and uses the same BPEL and/or WSDL inputs and produces the outputs as Process OWL and Data Flow OWL files.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…And simple processes cannot be directly invoked, but, like atomic processes, they are viewed as having single-step executions. The features that distinguish and differentiate BPEL from OWL-S in terms of expressiveness, semantics, automated composition and execution, fault handling and querying mechanisms were identified in [12], and some difference between BPEL and DAML-S, predecessor of OWL-S, had been compared in [13]. The mapping of necessary WSDL elements to the OWL-S process model is used and extended in our mapping tool BPEL2OWL-S, an extension of initial implementation work described in [11].…”

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“…In this section we will present a case of mapping from BPEL to OWL-S through an example [12]. Figure 1 shows an example BPEL flow which we will use for mapping illustration.…”

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“…The derived atomic process will have both the inputs and outputs based on the inputVariable and outputVariable attributes of the <invoke> activity respectively. The examples can be found in [12].…”

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“…OWL-S, jointly developed by a consortium including industry and research institutions, is an attempt to provide an ontology for describing Web services [9]. In this paper, we introduce an approach (BPEL2OWL-S) which support the mapping of business processes defined in BPEL onto an OWL-S based process ontology [12].…”

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Analysis of business process integration in Web service context

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The integration of Web services is a recent outgrowth of the Business Process integration field that will require powerful meta-schema matching mechanisms supported by higher level abstractions, such as UML metamodels. Currently, there are many XML-based workflow process specification languages (e.g. XPDL, BPEL) which can be used to define business processes in the Web services and Grid Computing world. However, with limited capability to describe the relationships (schemas or ontologies) between process objects, the dominant use of XML as a meta-data markup language makes the semantics of the processes ambiguous. OWL-S (Ontology Web Language for Services) exploits the semantic description power of OWL to build an ontology language for services. It therefore becomes a candidate for an inter lingua. In this paper, we propose an integration framework for business processes, which is applied to Web services defined in OWL-S. KeywordsBusiness process management, Web services, Semantic web, Specification integration, UML meta-models Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics Publication DetailsThis article will be published as: Shen, J, Grossman, G, AbstractThe integration of Web services is a recent outgrowth of the Business Process integration field that will require powerful meta-schema matching mechanisms supported by higher level abstractions, such as UML meta-models. Currently, there are many XML based workflow process specification languages (e.g. XPDL, BPEL) which can be used to define business processes in the Web services and Grid Computing world. However, with limited capability to describe the relationships (schemas or ontologies) between process objects, the dominant use of XML as a meta-data markup language makes the semantics of the processes ambiguous. OWL-S (Ontology Web Language for Services) exploits the semantic description power of OWL to build an ontology language for services. It therefore becomes a candidate for an inter lingua. In this paper, we propose an integration framework for business processes which is applied to Web services defined in OWL-S. We first describe the mapping from BPEL to OWL-S and what semantic relationships between Web services look like in OWL-S. Based on these relationships, integration options are applied which create a new composite Web service semi-automatically.

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“…In this section we will present a case of mapping from BPEL to OWL-S through an example [12]. Figure 1 shows an example BPEL flow which we will use for mapping illustration.…”

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Expressing Business Process Models as OWL-S Ontologies

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Auer

Shen

et al. 2006

Business Process Management Workshops

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Abstract. BPEL4WS is a well-established business process standard that can be used to orchestrate service-based workflows. However, the rapid growth and automation demands of e-business and grid applications require BPEL4WS to provide enhanced semantic annotations to achieve the goal of business processes automation. Here, OWL-S (OWL for Web Services) is designed to represent such kind of semantic information. Furthermore, there exists a similarity in the conceptual model of OWL-S and BPEL4WS that can be employed to overcome the lack of semantics in BPEL4WS by mapping the BPEL4WS process model to the OWL-S suite of ontologies. The mapped OWL-S service can be used to increase flexibility and to automate BPEL based grid scenarios even further. This is achieved by dynamic discovery, composition and invocation of OWL-S services, for example within e-business and grid environments. Hence, the aim of this paper is to establish a mapping from the BPEL process model to the complete OWL-S suite of ontologies. We present a mapping strategy and a tool supporting this strategy. This allows the semantic annotation of workflows defined as BPEL4WS processes to enable the automation of a variety of e-business tasks.

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Dissecting Inter-Organizational Business Process Modeling: A Linguistic and Conceptual Approach

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From BPEL4WS to OWL-S: integrating e-business process descriptions

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

Analysis of business process integration in Web service context

Analysis of business process integration in Web service context

Expressing Business Process Models as OWL-S Ontologies

Dissecting Inter-Organizational Business Process Modeling: A Linguistic and Conceptual Approach

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