Enterprise applications of semantic technologies for business process management

• Published in: Frontiers of information technology & electronic engineering Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 308 - 310
• Main Author: Mueller, Ralf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg SP Zhejiang University Press 01.04.2012; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Business process management; Communications Engineering; Computer Hardware; Computer Science; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Electrical Engineering; Electronics and Microelectronics; Instrumentation; Networks; PM系统; Web本体语言; 业务流程管理; 企业应用程序; 信息技术; 基础设施; 流程模型; 语义; Business Process Management; Business Process Model; Business Rule; Unify Modeling Language; Business Process
• ISSN: 1869-1951; 2095-9184; 1869-196X; 2095-9230
• DOI: 10.1631/jzus.C1101011

1 Introduction Today＇s business process management （BPM） systems have evolved to provide rich and sophisti- cated tooling and runtime support for subject domain experts, business analysts, development, and information technology （IT）. However, the evolution of BPM systems led to a jungle of different representation formats for the various artifacts in such systems. These include models for value chains, strategies, goals, and objectives on the analysis side, business process models, organizational data and service models, and finally models for the implementation of a BPM system to a runtime infrastructure. In many systems, the complex relationships between the enti- ties of a BPM system are vaguely documented, let alone be formalized in a machine readable way. This is where semantic technologies kick in： to provide the foundation for formalizing the complex relationships of a business in a common model using Web Ontology Language （OWL） ontologies. This avoids information silos and enables a holistic view to a BPM system using SPARQL.