Semantic Annotation of Services and Processes in Business Alliances Karol Furdík 1,2 1 InterSoft, a.s., Floriánska 19, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia [email protected]

Semantic AnnotationSemantic Annotationof Services and Processes of Services and Processes

in Business Alliancesin Business Alliances

Karol Furdík 1,2

1 InterSoft, a.s., Floriánska 19, 040 01 Košice, [email protected]

2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia

[email protected]

PROCESS CONTROL 2010 - 9th International ConferenceKouty nad Desnou, Czech Republic, June 7 - 10, 2010

ContentsContents


Introduction, motivation

Project SPIKE: basic facts, vision, pilot applications

System architecture and components

System data, ontology design Information view, data elements

Conceptual perspective, ontology design

Semantic structures Resource ontologies

Abstract models of business processes

Technology used for implementing the semantic structures

Semantically enhanced Enterprise Service Bus

Conclusions, future work

MotivationMotivation

Networked enterprises: combining BP modelling, semantic technologies, security infrastructure to support a creation and maintenance of short-term business alliances

Related projects: STASIS (FP6-034980, www.stasis-project.net): eEconomy services,

semantic interoperability; TrustCom (FP6-001945, www.eu-trustcom.com): framework for Virtual

Organisations; OPUCE (FP6-034101, www.opuce.tid.es): service environment,

infrastructure for collaborative and dynamic loosely coupled services; SUPER (FP6-026850, www.ip-super.org): modular architecture for

semantic BPM. other projects and research groups focused on SWS, Security, Identity

Management and Privacy, Process-Oriented Knowledge Management, etc.


Project SPIKE - Basic factsProject SPIKE - Basic facts

SPIKE: Secure Process-oriented Integrative Service Infrastructure for Networked Enterprises

Web: www.spike-project.eu FP7 ICT EU project, FP7-2007-217098

FP7-ICT-Call1, Challenge 1 - Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures, ICT in support of the networked enterprise

Duration: 01/2008 – 12/2010 (36 months) Consortium: 8 partners from 5 countries (GE,A,FIN,ESP,SK)

Coordinator: University of Regensburg, GE 3 Pilot applications in Austria and Finland

Main objective: Development of a software service platform for the easy, secure, and fast

start-up of short-term and project-based business alliances.


SPIKE visionSPIKE vision


Pilot applicationsPilot applications

1. Information hotel Controlling and automation of the supplier vs. client documentation

management processes and related sub-processes Use cases: uploading, sending, receiving docs from supplier,

verifying uploaded docs, verifying received docs near deadline, sending reminder messages to suppliers, ...

2. Legacy applications Location of services of partners, integration into workflows. Use cases: maintenance of service providers, service information

and configuration, tracking services, contracting and ordering services,...

3. Identity federation Enable access to the inner infrastructure of partners within an

alliance to support effective collaboration. Use cases: collaboration setup and maintenance, role and resource

management


Architecture - system componentsArchitecture - system components

SPIKE System Core: back end, system data processing

SPIKE Service Bus: internal / external communication


Information view - data elementsInformation view - data elements


Conceptual perspectiveConceptual perspective

Ontologies designed according to the data elements: Core, Resource, Service, Domain, System, Business process, & User

ontologies WSMO platform, WSML ontology representation WSMO Lite conceptual model, WSMO Studio toolkit Existing ontologies reused: Dublin Core, WSMO ontologies, SKOS,

vCard, SIOC, ontologies of project SUPER, etc. Methodology: Requirement-driven approach

Semantic BP modelling Creation of BP models for ACs Identification of information

resources exchanged in the process

Semantic annotation of process elements (sub-processes, tasks, activities, services)


Semantic structures producedSemantic structures produced

Ontologies: http://www.spike-project.eu/ontologies/

Process-related Business process ontology Service ontology Resource ontology

System-related Core / System / User ontologies

Domain: 4 ontologies for pilot ACs

Abstract BP models: http://www.spike-project.eu/BPmodels/

Models of ACs for all pilot applications Additional demonstrative AC:

SPIKE Furniture Store


Information Hotel AC: domain ontology for documentation management

Domain ontology sampleDomain ontology sample


Information Hotel AC: domain ontology for doc. management

Abstract BP sampleAbstract BP sample


Technology usedTechnology used

Open Source, Java-based Ontologies and semantic annotation:

WSMO framework, WSMO Studio (www.wsmostudio.org)

BP modelling: based on BPMN/BPEL, BPMO Modeller (of WSMO Studio), sBPEL ontology.

Enterprise Service Bus: Java Business Integration (JBI) compliant ESB (Apache

ServiceMIX, OpenESB)

Portal integration layer: Intalio Tempo Security:

Single Sign On service & Authentication: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL),

PERMIS infrastructure for authorization


Semantic ESB (1)Semantic ESB (1)


JBI architecture adapted to the SPIKE platform

Semantic ESB (2)Semantic ESB (2)


Interactions between the JBI environment, Message Transformer and Semantic Manager

ConclusionsConclusions

Work done so far: User requirements and application cases specified for all the pilots;

Semantic structures (ontologies and abstract BP models) designed and implemented, including proper guidelines, methodology and toolchain;

Architecture of the platform designed, functional components specified in detail and implemented into the 1st prototype (12/09);

1st trial of the pilot applications, validation of the SPIKE platform on the application cases (03/10).

Future work: Implementation of enhancements and updates required by the evaluation

of 1st trial is ongoing; Development of the integrated SPIKE platform - 2nd prototype (06-11/10) 2nd trial of the pilot applications, validation of the integrated SPIKE

platform on the application cases (12/10-02/11)


Questions?Questions?

More info: http://www.spike-project.eu


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Semantic Annotation of Services and Processes in Business Alliances Karol Furdík 1,2 1 InterSoft, a.s., Floriánska 19, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia [email protected]