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When creating an execution-level process model today, two crucial problems are how to find the right services (service discovery and composition), and how to make sure they are in the right order (semantic process validation). While isolated solutions for both problems exist, a unified approach has not yet been available. Our approach resolves this shortcoming by gathering all existing information in the process, thus making the basis of semantic service discovery and task composition both broader and more targeted. Thereby we achieve the following benefits: (i) less modeling overhead for semantic annotations to the process, (ii) more information regarding the applicability of services, and (iii) early avoidance of inconsistencies in the interrelation between all process parts. Consequently, new or changed business processes can be realized in IT more efficiently and with fewer errors, thus making enterprises more agile in response to new requirements and opportunities.
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May, N., Weber, I. (2008). Information Gathering for Semantic Service Discovery and Composition in Business Process Modeling. In: Dietz, J.L.G., Albani, A., Barjis, J. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering I. CIAO! EOMAS 2008 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68644-6_4
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