Title
Using AI and semantic web technologies to attack process complexity in open systems
Abstract
Recently many vendors and groups have advocated using BPEL and WS-BPEL as a workflow language to encapsulate business logic. While encapsulating workflow and process logic in one place is a sensible architectural decision, the implementation of complex workflows suffers from the same problems that made managing and maintaining hierarchical procedural programs difficult. BPEL lacks constructs for logical modularity such as the requirements construct from the STL [STL 2003, Introduction to the STL. Available from: .] or the ability to adapt constructs like pure abstract classes for the same purpose. We describe a system that uses semantic web and agent concepts to implement an abstraction layer for BPEL based on the notion of Goals and service typing. AI planning was used to enable process engineers to create and validate systems that used services and goals as first class concepts and compiled processes at run time for execution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.knosys.2006.11.016
Knowl.-Based Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
semantic web,business process,business processes,web service,web services,abstraction,planning,agents,bpel,workflow,process engineering,ai planning,open system
Semantic Web Stack,Computer science,Semantic Web,Business Process Execution Language,Artificial intelligence,Social Semantic Web,Workflow,Software engineering,Business process,Business logic,Web service,Machine learning,Database
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
2
0950-7051
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon G. Thompson111316.66
Nick Giles2101.20
Yang Li312811.37
Hamid Gharib4141.64
Thuc Duong Nguyen51389.39