Title: Using a semantically enhanced database for business service and process modelling and integration

Authors: Alexandra Galatescu, Taisia Greceanu, Dragos Nicolau

Addresses: National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 011455, Bucharest, Romania. ' National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 011455, Bucharest, Romania. ' National Institute for R&D in Informatics, 8-10 Averescu Avenue, 011455, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract: The paper motivates and exemplifies a semantic extension of a relational database and the inference on it in a system for the modelling, integration and execution of business services (atomic and local services, executed by companies standing for service providers) and business processes (global services, e.g., processes like procurement or company set-up, dynamically composed of local services). The paper shows how the reference and domain ontologies and also the service and process models based on ontologies have been represented and integrated in a relational database and what kind of inference has been implemented on them. It also shows how the basic features in OWL and OWL-S have been implemented with this semantic extension of the relational database.

Keywords: ontologies; ontology-based models; service-oriented processes; business services; relational databases; business process integration; business process modelling; semantics; relational databases.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2011.042532

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2011 Vol.5 No.5, pp.468 - 492

Received: 17 Mar 2010
Accepted: 06 Dec 2010
Published online: 21 Oct 2014 *

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