Bridging the Gap Between Different Levels of Business Process Modelling

International Conference on Collaborative Mechatronic Engineering (ICCME’09), May 25-26, 2009, Salzburg, Austria

Violeta Damjanovic, Manuela Plößnig Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.Jakob Haringer Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, AustriaT +43.662.2288-427 | F +43.662.2288-222{violeta.damjanovic, manuela.ploessnig}@salzburgresearch.atwww.salzburgresearch.at

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Outline

| Classification of Business Process Management Levels| ImportNET Approach in Business Process Management| Closing the Gap between Functional and Operational Levels of

Business Process Management| Business Process Modelling Applied to the ImportNET Real Use

Case: The Synchronize Design Process| Conclusion

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Classification of Business Process Management Levels

| According to [Gadatsch, 2005]

Gadatsch, A.: Grundkurs Geschäftsprozess-Management, Vieweg-Verlag, Wiesbaden, (2005).

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ImportNET Approach in Business Process Management

| First step: from the strategic level to the functional level of BPM

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ImportNET Strategic Level: The V-model

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ImportNET Functional Level: DDPO Ontology Module

| DOLCE (Descriptive Ontology for Linguistics and Cognitive Engineering) foundational ontology

| DOLCE… “aims at capturing the ontological categories underlying natural language and human commonsense” [Pisanelli et al., 2002]

| DDPO (DOLCE Description and Situation (D&S) Plan and Tasks Ontology)

| …“ provide dynamic and semantically meaningful use of knowledge that describes tasks, description and situation in which the business processes can be applied“ [Damjanovic, 2008]

Pisanelli, D., Gangemi, A., Steve, G.: An Ontology of Descriptions and Situations for Lyee’s hypothetical World. CNR-ISTC, Rome, Italy (2002)

Damjanovic, V.: DOLCE and Pi-Calculus Rendezvous Semantics for Business Processes. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Re-engineering over the Semantic Web (KRRSW 2008) at the ESWC 2008, Tenerife (2008)

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ImportNET Functional Level: Ontology Design

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Closing the Gap between Functional and Operational Levels of Business Process Management

| Ontology reengineering from the functional level (DDPO-based ontology) into the operational level (executable business process)

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A Big Picture of “flying” from the Functional Island to the Operational Island

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Business Process Modelling Applied to the ImportNET Real Use Case: The Synchronize Design Process

| Strategic level Functional level Operational level

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The BPEL Structogram of the Synchronize Design Process

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Closing the Gap| mapping between DDPO tasks and BPEL activities

| <receive partnerLink="nc" portType="qn” operation="nc" variable= "nc"? createInstance= "yes|no"? standard-attribute> standard-element <correlations> ? <correlation set="nc" initate=" yes|no"?> + </correlations> </receive>| | HybridTask(x) = df ComplexTask(x) (y,z.Component(x,y) Component(x,z) yz ControlTask(y)ActionTask(z)

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Conclusions| how to express non-dynamic knowledge about the dynamic and reusable business processes [Damjanovic, 2008]| modelling the transition conditions (rules) of business processes | Ontology Design Patterns for reengineering business processes [Damjanovic, 2009a], [Damjanovic, 2009b]

Damjanovic, V. (2008): DOLCE and Pi-Calculus Rendezvous Semantics for Business Processes. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Re-engineering over the Semantic Web (KRRSW 2008) at the ESWC 2008, Tenerife.

Damjanovic, V. (2009a): Ontology Design Patterns for Semantic Business Processes. In Proceeding of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2009), in conjunction with the 6th ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 01, 2009.

Damjanovic, V. (2009b): Reengineering Patterns for Ontologizing Business Processes. In Proceeding of the I-SEMANTICS’09, Graz, Austria, September 2-4, 2009.

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Dr. Violeta Damjanovic Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.Jakob Haringer Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, AustriaT +43.662.2288-427 | F +43.662.2288-222violeta.damjanovic@salzburgresearch.atwww.salzburgresearch.at