ProcessModelingFeb2009/GerdTalk

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Modeling and Query Patterns for Process Retrieval

by Gerd Groener

Abstract

Process modeling is a core task in software engineering in general and in web service modeling in particular. The explicit management of process models for purposes such as process selection and/or process reuse requires flexible and intelligent retrieval of process structures based on process entities and relationships, i.e. process activities, hierarchical relationship between activities and their parts, temporal relationships between activities, conditions on process flows as well as the modeling of domain knowledge. In this paper, we analyze requirements for modeling and querying of process models and present a pattern-oriented approach exploiting OWL-DL representation and reasoning capabilities for expressive process modeling and retrieval.

Short Bio

Gerd Groener is a postgraduate researcher at the ISWeb Group (Prof. Staab), University of Koblenz-Landau. He holds a master degree (Dipl. Informatiker) in Computer Science (AI Research Group) and a master degree in Economics from the University of Ulm. He is working in the EU-project MOST (Marrying Ontology and Software Technology) which is focused on combining semantic web technologies with software technologies. His task in this project is the application of scalable reasoning technologies for different software models. This includes model representations in different ontology languages and the transformation between languages in order to provide scalable reasoning and querying support. This will also be the topic of his Ph.D. thesis.