An ontology-based collaborative business service selection: contributing to automatic building of collaborative business process

Wenxin Mu (1) , Frederick Benaben (2) , Hervé Pingaud (3)

1 BJTU - Beijing Jiaotong University
2 CGI - Centre Génie Industriel
3 INUC - Institut national universitaire Champollion [Albi]

With worldwide inter-enterprise collaboration and interoperability background, automatic collaborative business process deduction is a crucial researching subject. We have designed a methodology of deducing collaborative process by only collecting collaborative objectives and partners’ business services. The two key problems are (i) selecting corresponding business services for a set of collaborative objectives and (ii) ordering business services with serializations and parallelization. This paper aims to present a solution of business service selection and the following business process extraction. In order to solve the problem, we have defined a collaborative ontology, which contains numerous instances of business services and processes from the MIT process handbook. The collaborative ontology contains essential concepts in collaborative situations and process-deducing rules and algorithms. We provide a brief illustration of implementation within a SaaS toolkit called Mediator Modeling 2ool.

Mots clés: Business process management; Model-driven engineering; Inter-enterprise collaboration; Ontology

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Wenxin Mu, Frederick Benaben, Hervé Pingaud. An ontology-based collaborative business service selection: contributing to automatic building of collaborative business process. Service Oriented Computing and Applications, 2018, 12 (1), p.59-72. ⟨10.1007/s11761-018-0229-1⟩. ⟨hal-01770290⟩