Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Engineering and Management of IT-based Service Systems pp 83–99Cite as

Towards Semantic Support for Business Process Integration

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

  • 1580 Accesses

Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library ((ISRL,volume 55))

Abstract

In this chapter we attempt to cover the major contributions in the semantic approach to business process integration. We ought to present our perspectives and vision about how to carry out semantic support for business process integration and a set of recommendations based on the major contributions of frameworks, methodologies, procedures and tools, considering open issues as well as challenges in this field; providing some insight into the semantic shifting of Business Process Management (BPM), the current work and future research trends on the topic. There is also presented a proposal for a framework design that combines the semantic supported modeling with the orchestration of integration processes in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) context.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD   109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Abramowicz, W., Filipowska, A., Kaczmarek, M., Kaczmarek, T.: Semantically enhanced Business Process Modelling Notation. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM), Innsbruck, Austria (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Andrews, T., Curbera, F., Dholakia, H., Goland, Y., Klein, J., Leymann, F., Liu, K., Roller, D., Smith, D., Thatte, S.: Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, Version 1.1. Specification, BEA Systems, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Siebel Systems (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Aslam, M., Auer, S., Shen, J.: From BPEL4WS Process Model to Full OWL-S Ontology. In: The 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, Budva, Montenegro (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Business Process Modeling Notation Specification. OMG Final Adopted Specification, Jan 2009 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Dayal, U., Hsu, M., and Ladin, R.: Business Process Coordination: State of the Art, Trends, and Open Issues. In: Proceedings of the 27th international Conference on Very Large Data Bases (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  6. De Nicola, A., Mascio, T.D., Lezoche, M., Tagliano, F.: Semantic Lifting of Business Process Models. In: Proceedings of the 12th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops EDOCW 2008 (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Fantini, P., Savoldelli, A., Milanesi, M., Carizzoni, G., Koehler, J., Stein, S., Angeli, R., Hepp, M., Roman, D., Brelage, C., Born, M.: SUPER Deliverable D2.2: Semantic Business Process Life Cycle. http://www.ipsuper.org/res/Deliverables/M12/D2.2.pdf Accessed 2009

  8. Hepp, M., Roman, D.: An Ontology Framework for Semantic Business Process Management. In: Proceedings of Wirtschaftsinformatik 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 1–18 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Hepp, M., Leymann, F., Domingue, J., Wahler, A., Fensel, D.: Semantic Business Process Management: A Vision Towards Using Semantic Web Services for Business Process Management. In: Proceedings of the IEEE—ICEBE (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Karagiannis, D.: BPMS: Business process management systems. ACM SIGOIS Bull. 16(1), 10–13 (1995)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Ko, R.K.L., Lee, S.S.G., Lee, E.W.: Business process management (BPM) standards: a survey. Bus. Process Manage. J. 15(5), 744–791 (2009)

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  12. Koskela, M., Haajanen, J.: Business Process Modeling and Execution: Tools and Technologies. Report for the SOAMeS Project. VTT Research Notes 2407, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  13. Kotinurmi, P., Haller, A., Oren, E.: Ontologically Enhanced RosettaNet B2B Integration. In: Garcia, R., (ed.) Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications, pp. 194--221. IGI Global (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  14. Lautenbacher, F., Bauer, B.: A Survey on Workflow Annotation and Composition Approaches. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM) in the context of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), Innsbruck, Austria (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  15. Mendling, J., Neumann, G.: A Comparison of XML Interchange Formats for Business Process Modelling. Workflow Handbook 2005, Future Strategies Inc, Florida , USA (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  16. Ouyang C., van der Aalst, W., Dumas, M., ter Hofstede, A.: Translating BPMN to BPEL. BPM Center Report BPMcenter.org, available at http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/wvdaalst/BPMcenter/reports.htm.Accessed 2006

  17. Preist, C., Cuadrado, J. E., Battle, S., Williams, S., Grimm, S.: Automated Business-to-Business Integration of a Logistics Supply Chain using Semantic Web Services Technology. In: Proceedings of 4th International Semantic Web Conference, pp. 987–1001. Springer, (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Recker, J.C., Mendling, J.: On the Translation between BPMN and BPEL: Conceptual Mismatch between Process Modeling Languages. In Latour, T., Petit, M. (eds.) 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Recker, J., Indulska, M., Rosemann, M., Green, P.: An Exploratory Study of Process Modeling Practice with BPMN. BPMCenter Report, No. BPM-08-12, www.BPMCenter.org. Accessed 2008

  20. Shapiro, R.: A Comparison of XPDL, BPML, and BPEL4WS. OASIS XML Cover Pages (2002)

    Google Scholar 

  21. Simchi-Levi, D., Kaminsky, P., Simchi-Levi, E.: Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Case Studies, McGraw-Hill, New York (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  22. van der Aalst, W.M.P., ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Weske, M.: Business Process Management: A Survey. In: Proceedings of the Business Process Management: International Conference, BPM 2003, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 26–27 Jun 2003

    Google Scholar 

  23. Weber, I., Hoffmann, J., Mendling, J., Nitzsche, J.: Towards a Methodology for Semantic Business Process Modeling and Configuration. In: Service-Oriented Computing—ICSOC Workshops: ICSOC 2007, international Workshops, Vienna, Austria (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  24. White, S.: Process Modeling Notations and Workflow Patterns. Workflow Handbook 2004, pp. 265–294. Future Strategies Inc, Florida, USA (2004)

    Google Scholar 

Additional Reading Section

  1. e3-value, http://www.e3value.com

  2. FUSION Project, http://www.fusionweb.org

  3. Ghalimi, I.,McGoveran, D.: Standards and BPM. BPM.COM (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Havey, M.: Essential Business Process Modeling, O’Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Hepp, M., Hinkelmann, K., Karagiannis, D., Klein, R., Stojanovic, N.: In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management (SBPM 2007) in conjunction with the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007). http://sbpm2007.fzi.de. (2007)

  6. Hepp, M., Hinkelmann, K., Karagiannis, D., Klein, R., Stojanovic, N.: In: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM2009) collocated with ESWC 2009. http://sbpm2009.fzi.de. (2009)

  7. Hill, J.B., Pezzini, M., Natis, Y.V.: Findings: Confusion Remains Regarding BPM Terminologies. Gartner Research, Vol. ID Number: G00155817. (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Karagiannis, D., Woitsch, R., Utz, W., Eichner H., Hrgovcic, V.: The Business Process as an Integration Platform: Case Studies from the EU-Projects LD-Cast and BREIN. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2008) in conjunction with the 5th ESWC 2008 (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Khan, R.M.: What Standards Really Matter for BPM. In: Business Process Trends (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Recker, J.C.: A Study on the Decision to Continue Using a Modeling Grammar. In: 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, Colorado (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  11. Smith, H.: Enough is enough in the field of BPM: We don’t need BPELJ: BPML semantics are just fine. BPM3 (2004). http://www.fairdene.com/bpelj/BPELJ-Enough-Is-Enough.pdf Accessed (2013)

  12. SUPER Project, http://www.ip-super.org

  13. van der Aalst, W.M.P.: Don’t go with the flow: Web services composition standards exposed. IEEE Intell. Syst. 18(1), 72–76 (2003)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. van der Aalst, W.M.P.: Patterns and XPDL: A Critical Evaluation of the XML Process Definition Language. In: QUT Technical report, FIT-TR-2003-06, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2003 (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  15. van der Aalst, W.M.P.: Business Process Management: A Personal View. Bus. Process Manage. J. 10(2), 5 (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  16. Wohed, P., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Dumas, M., ter Hofstede, A.H.M.: Analysis of Web Services Composition Languages: The Case of BPEL4WS. Conceptual Modeling-Er 2003. In: Proceedings 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Chicago, IL, USA (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  17. Wohed, P., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Dumas, M., ter Hofstede, A.H.M.: Pattern-Based Analysis of BPEL4WS. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Wohed, P., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Dumas, M., ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Russell, N.: On the Suitability of BPMN for Business Process Modelling. Business Process Management, pp. 161–176. Springer, Berlin (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Woodley, T., Gagnon, S.: BPM and SOA: Synergies and challenges. WISE, pp. 679–688. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  20. zur Muehlen, M.: Tutorial—Business Process Management Standards. In: 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 13 (2007)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas, Las Villas, Cuba

    Roberto Pérez López de Castro & Inty Sáez Mosquera

  2. “Carl von Ossietzky” University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Jorge Marx Gómez

Authors
  1. Roberto Pérez López de Castro
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Inty Sáez Mosquera
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Jorge Marx Gómez
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Roberto Pérez López de Castro .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. of Information Systems Universidad 940, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Ags., Mexico

    Manuel Mora

  2. Department of Computing Science, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Jorge Marx Gómez

  3. Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

    Leonardo Garrido

  4. Departamento de Tecnologías de la Inform, CCADET, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico

    Francisco Cervantes Pérez

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

de Castro, R.P.L., Mosquera, I.S., Gómez, J.M. (2014). Towards Semantic Support for Business Process Integration. In: Mora, M., Marx Gómez, J., Garrido, L., Pérez, F. (eds) Engineering and Management of IT-based Service Systems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39928-2_5

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39928-2_5

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-39927-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-39928-2

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation