Ontology-Based Matchmaking and Composition of Business Processes

This chapter shows how it is possible to use agents and Semantic Web technologies to deal with dynamic composition of business processes via an agent-based workflow system. The aim of the system is to discover composable processes at first among heterogeneous business processes that are running possibly under different Web servers and then execute them in the order specified by a planner to reach a complex requested goal. We proposed a framework of an Inference-based Semantic Composition Agent (SCA) of atomic business ...