ProcessModelingFeb2009/VioletaTalk
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Ontologizing Business Processes
Abstract
Different levels of business process management use different approaches to achieve interoperability among enterprise and knowledge engineering. Closing this gap is based on bridging theoretical research and practical issues on business process management that we have particularly seen in (a) exploring the dynamic and declarative business processes, (b) semantic lifting the ontological (data) model into the business process model and (c) connecting domain-dependent functions with the application-dependent business processes. As a way of semantic lifting mechanism we propose using Ontology Design Patterns, more specifically - Transformation (Ontology Design) Pattern for reengineering conceptual model into the business process perspective. We represent two transformational patterns called WSDL-DDPO and BPEL-DDPO.
Short Bio
Violeta Damjanovic is a Researcher at Salzburg Research, Department of Knowledge based Information Systems (KIS), Austria. She received B.Sc. in Information Systems, a postgraduate degree as a Specialist in Internet technologies, M.Sc. in Electronic Business and Ph.D. in Information Systems, from the University of Belgrade (FON, Department of Information Systems and Technologies), in 1998, 2003, 2005 and 2008. From March 2002 she is a member of the GOOD OLD AI Research group, situated at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, working in the field of Semantic Web technologies applied to Multi Agent Systems and ambient technologies. In 2006, she joined Salzburg Research where she continued her work in the field of semanticising business processes. She has a strong research record in these areas, as she has published results in various scientific publications, including monograph, one book, several chapters in books, and more than 30 research papers in journals and conference proceedings. Her MSc thesis has been awarded with the 2005 Research Award from the Serbian Society for Informatics. Additionally, she is a member of IEEE Computer Society, a member of Ontology Design Patterns Editorial board, and participates as a programme committee member at various conferences and workshops.
