Workflow Semantic Description for Inter-organizational Cooperation

Nomane Ould, Samir Tata

2006

Abstract

The work we present here is in line with a novel approach for inter-organizational workflow cooperation that consists of workflow advertisement, interconnection, and cooperation. For advertisement, workflows should be described. Nevertheless, by using a description language like XPDL only syntactic problems can be solved. In this paper, we propose a three steps method for workflows semantic description. First, workflows described using XPDL, are annotated to distinguish cooperative activities and non cooperative ones. Second, to preserve privacy, a view, that we call cooperative interface, for each different partner is generated. Third, cooperative interfaces are described using OWL according to an ontology we have defined for cooperative workflows.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ould N. and Tata S. (2006). Workflow Semantic Description for Inter-organizational Cooperation . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Technologies for Collaborative Business Process Management - Volume 1: TCoB, (ICEIS 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-57-3, pages 62-71. DOI: 10.5220/0002486600620071

in Bibtex Style

@conference{tcob06,
author={Nomane Ould and Samir Tata},
title={Workflow Semantic Description for Inter-organizational Cooperation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Technologies for Collaborative Business Process Management - Volume 1: TCoB, (ICEIS 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={62-71},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002486600620071},
isbn={978-972-8865-57-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Technologies for Collaborative Business Process Management - Volume 1: TCoB, (ICEIS 2006)
TI - Workflow Semantic Description for Inter-organizational Cooperation
SN - 978-972-8865-57-3
AU - Ould N.
AU - Tata S.
PY - 2006
SP - 62
EP - 71
DO - 10.5220/0002486600620071