Rapid Service-Oriented Business Process Generation Method Based on Ontology

Service-oriented business process generation is a key activity in the Service- Oriented Architecture （SOA） business lifecy- cle, and most of the other activities such as application execution depend on the business process being developed, After the business requirements are acquired, a developer ha...

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Published in:China communications 2013-09, Vol.10 (9), p.13-32
Main Author: WU Budan LIN Rongheng Wei-Tek TSAI LIU Zheng CHEN Junliang PENG Yong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business
Object oriented modeling
Ontologies
ontology systems
Process planning
Service-oriented architecture
service-oriented business process generation
software asset reusability
Unified modeling language
Web服务
业务流程
业务过程
可视化设计
应用程序
本体系统
生成方法
面向服务的架构
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Summary:Service-oriented business process generation is a key activity in the Service- Oriented Architecture （SOA） business lifecy- cle, and most of the other activities such as application execution depend on the business process being developed, After the business requirements are acquired, a developer has to use specific programming technologies to or- chestrate web services to generate a deploy- able business process. It is time-consuming to specify all the business processes from low- level web services, especially for an enterprise that focuses on a series of similar businesses. This paper proposes a rapid service-oriented business process generation method with do- main-specific assets specified in ontology sy- stems. Assets with different levels ,of granu- larity are reused to refine the high level bus- iness process framework for executable busin- ess processes using the Business Process Exe- cutional Language （BPEL）. The new method- ology significantly simplifies service-oriented business process generation by reusing assets to construct business processes. A business pro- cess generation tool is also implemented to support the efficient visual design of SOA pro- cesses with the proposed method. This paper verifies the proposed method using a shipment tracking case. The studies show that the num- ber of reusable assets increases significantly as these projects progress, and the business pro- cess generation speed also increases at the same time.
ISSN:1673-5447
DOI:10.1109/CC.2013.6623500