Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation
Collaborative Business Processes (cBPs) form the backbone of enterprise integration. With the growing reliance on the web as a medium of business collaboration, there is an increasing need to quickly and dynamically form cBPs. However, current Business-to-Business (B2B) information systems are still...
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| author | Ko, Ryan K. L. Lee, E. W. Lee, S. G. |
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| description | Collaborative Business Processes (cBPs) form the backbone of enterprise integration. With the growing reliance on the web as a medium of business collaboration, there is an increasing need to quickly and dynamically form cBPs. However, current Business-to-Business (B2B) information systems are still static in nature, and are unable to dynamically form cBPs based on high-level Business Goals (BGs)and their underlying criteria (e.g., item cost, product name, order quantity, etc). This paper introduces the Business-OWL (BOWL), an ontology rooted in the Web Ontology Language (OWL), and modeled as a Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) for the dynamic formation of business processes. An ontologized extension and augmentation of traditional HTN, BOWL describes business processes as a hierarchical ontology of decomposable business tasks encompassing all possible decomposition permutations. Through BOWL, high-level business goals (e.g., "Buy”) can be easily decomposed right down to the lowest level tasks (e.g., "Send Purchase Order”), effectively bridging the gap between high-level business goals with operational level tasks and complementing currently static business process modeling languages. The design of BOWL and a case study demonstrating its implementation are also discussed. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1024182020-03-07T13:22:20Z Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation Ko, Ryan K. L. Lee, E. W. Lee, S. G. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering A*STAR SIMTech DRNTU::Business::Operations management::Business planning Collaborative Business Processes (cBPs) form the backbone of enterprise integration. With the growing reliance on the web as a medium of business collaboration, there is an increasing need to quickly and dynamically form cBPs. However, current Business-to-Business (B2B) information systems are still static in nature, and are unable to dynamically form cBPs based on high-level Business Goals (BGs)and their underlying criteria (e.g., item cost, product name, order quantity, etc). This paper introduces the Business-OWL (BOWL), an ontology rooted in the Web Ontology Language (OWL), and modeled as a Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) for the dynamic formation of business processes. An ontologized extension and augmentation of traditional HTN, BOWL describes business processes as a hierarchical ontology of decomposable business tasks encompassing all possible decomposition permutations. Through BOWL, high-level business goals (e.g., "Buy”) can be easily decomposed right down to the lowest level tasks (e.g., "Send Purchase Order”), effectively bridging the gap between high-level business goals with operational level tasks and complementing currently static business process modeling languages. The design of BOWL and a case study demonstrating its implementation are also discussed. 2013-10-16T04:25:57Z 2019-12-06T20:54:39Z 2013-10-16T04:25:57Z 2019-12-06T20:54:39Z 2012 2012 Journal Article Ko, R. K. L., Lee, E. W., & Lee, S. G. (2012). Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation. IEEE transactions on services computing, 5(2), 246-259. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102418 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16516 10.1109/TSC.2011.48 en IEEE transactions on services computing |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Business::Operations management::Business planning Ko, Ryan K. L. Lee, E. W. Lee, S. G. Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation |
| title | Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation |
| title_full | Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation |
| title_fullStr | Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation |
| title_short | Business-OWL (BOWL)—a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation |
| title_sort | business owl bowl a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation |
| topic | DRNTU::Business::Operations management::Business planning |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102418 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16516 |
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