Introduction to the 2nd Edition of the Workshop Advances in Semantics for Web Services 2007

These proceedings contain the papers accepted for the 2nd edition of the workshop ”Advances in Semantics for Web services 2007” (semantics4ws 2007). The workshop was held in Brisbane, Australia, on September 24, 2007, in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007)

Introduction to the 2nd edition of the workshop "advances in semantics for web services 2007" (Semantics4ws 2007)

These proceedings contain the papers accepted for the 2nd edition of the workshop ”Advances in Semantics for Web services 2007” (semantics4ws 2007). The workshop was held in Brisbane, Australia, on September 24, 2007, in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007)

PROCESS-ORIENTED SEMANTIC BUSINESS MODELING

In process-driven organizations, process models are the basis on which their supporting processaware information systems are built. Process modeling today is a highly complex, time consuming and error-prone task. In this paper, we define the abstraction levels of process modeling and extract the business knowledge required for modeling a process. Further, we present a processoriented enterprise ontology framework for capturing all relevant aspects of process models. Finally, we provide a set of application scenarios to illustrate the usage of the ontology framework. In this way, we reduce the complexity of process modeling, enable improved enterprise transparency and help ensuring the quality of designed process models