Towards an Intelligent Workflow Designer based on the Reuse of Workflow Patterns

In order to perform process-aware information systems we need sophisticated methods and concepts for designing and modeling processes. Recently, research on workflow patterns has emerged in order to increase the reuse of recurring workflow structures. However, current workflow modeling tools do not provide functionalities that enable users to define, query, and reuse workflow patterns properly. In this paper we gather a suite for both process modeling and normalization based on workflow patterns reuse. This suite must be used in the extension of some workflow design tool. The suite comprises components for the design of processes from both legacy systems and process modeling

Towards effective geographic ontology matching

The integration and matching of geographic ontologies is a field in which many efforts are being employed. There are many proposals, addressing a diversity of features, both at the concept as at the instance-level. In order to make clear the issues that are involved in the matching process, in this paper we present the formal definition of the heterogeneities that may occur when comparing two geographic ontologies. Some of the heterogeneities are common to the ones found in conventional ontologies integration, and some others are specific for the geographic field. Furthermore, we discuss some still open issues, neglected up to now, but very important to achieve good results in a real scenario