Potential applications of ontologies and reasoning for modeling and software engineering

1st International Workshop on Transforming and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven Engineering

Andreas Friesen ; SAP Research ; CEC Karlsruhe

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-395/paper00.pdf
PID  :  25705

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In the last few years SAP introduced Service-oriented Architecture as a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. An Enterprise Service is typically a series of Web services combined with business logic that can be accessed and used repeatedly to support a particular business process. Aggregating Web services into business-level enterprise services provides a more meaningful foundation for the task of automating enterprise-scale business scenarios. At the same time, SAP Research was investigating in numerous research projects how ontologies, reasoning, semantic web services technologies, and advanced business process modelling technologies can be applied in order to improve technical foundation behind SAP SOA and business modelling. In this extended abstract we describe some selected business process composition and integration scenarios identified as potential candidates for application of business process composition techniques, semantic technologies, ontologies, and reasoning. We further identify some challenges linked to application of such advanced technologies in the context of modelling and software engineering.