A Ontological Collaborative Framework for Bussiness Process Integration

With the development of web services and its extension with Semantic Web augmented-Semantic Web Services (SWS), the modern approaches for business-to-business integration (B2Bi) focus on their business process integration between enterprises. Cross-enterprise collaboration is one of challenges on the B2Bi research nowadays. With the support of Semantic Web technologies, the gap between business and IT communities has been reduced in order to tackle the challenge. Semantic Web-based approaches for BPM have been foreseen as a promising solution with taking advantages of Semantic Web technologies such as ontologies, SWS. Taking into account the challenge of dynamically forming collaborative business processes with attached services into the execution, in this paper, based on our previous work, we propose a semantic framework for forming a dynamic collaboration of business processes within our BizKB systems for across-enterprise collaboration. We focus on a dynamic service discovery based on the consensus methodology.