The SUPER project has proposed an ontology stack for Semantic BPM, two ontologies from which correspond to these viewpoints. Firstly, the Business Process Modelling Ontology (BPMO) attempts to model a business analyst’s view on a business process in its organizational context and business domain. Secondly Semantic BPEL is an ontology-based view on a SWS-based extension to BPEL, the industry’s de facto standard for representing service-oriented executable business processes. Two corresponding deliverables in the CMS working group will continue the work on these ontologies to standardization, and consider their inter-relationship with each other and other relevant CMS work.
Semantic Business Process Management
Written by Barry Norton Tuesday, 10 February 2025 08:49
Semantic Business Process Management (Semantic BPM) is a recent and promising research area devoted to extending the results from Semantic Web Services (SWS) - i.e., the application of ontology-based modelling and reasoning to Web Services - to Business Process Management, which is these days often realised using Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Semantic BPM, from one point of view, concerns the addition of corresponding semantic annotations to the business-oriented view on processes. Since, however, the Semantic Web approach, realised using ontologies, is not simply to represent conceptualisations (in the style of a data model) but to embody relationships and inferences over such conceptualisations, an equally important task to realise Semantic BPM is hence to relate business-oriented and IT/service-oriented views of processes ontologically.