Enriching business process models with semantic annotations taken from an ontology has become a crucial need both in service provisioning, integration and composition, and in business processes management. We represent semantically annotated business processes as part of an OWL knowledge base that formalises the business process structure, the business domain, a set of criteria describing correct semantic annotations, and a set of constraints describing requirements on the business process itself. In this paper we show how semantic web representation and reasoning techniques can be: (i) exploited by our aspect-oriented approach to modularize exception handling (as well as other crosscutting) mechanisms; (ii) effectively applied to formalise and automatically verify constraints on the management of exceptional flows (as well as other relevant flows) in business processes. The benefits of the semantic web and the aspect- oriented technologies are illustrated on a case study, where exceptional flows are modularized separately and managed at the semantic level thanks to the proposed approach.

Semantics-Based Aspect-Oriented Management of Exceptional Flows in Business Processes

M. Rospocher;
2012-01-01

Abstract

Enriching business process models with semantic annotations taken from an ontology has become a crucial need both in service provisioning, integration and composition, and in business processes management. We represent semantically annotated business processes as part of an OWL knowledge base that formalises the business process structure, the business domain, a set of criteria describing correct semantic annotations, and a set of constraints describing requirements on the business process itself. In this paper we show how semantic web representation and reasoning techniques can be: (i) exploited by our aspect-oriented approach to modularize exception handling (as well as other crosscutting) mechanisms; (ii) effectively applied to formalise and automatically verify constraints on the management of exceptional flows (as well as other relevant flows) in business processes. The benefits of the semantic web and the aspect- oriented technologies are illustrated on a case study, where exceptional flows are modularized separately and managed at the semantic level thanks to the proposed approach.
2012
Business process modelling, semantic annota- tion, ontology, exception handling
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