A Semantic Representation for Public Calls Domain and Procedure: Housing Policies of Campania Region Case Study

A tool for the semantic annotation, validation and optimization of business process models

“…Figure 1 shows a UML use case diagram to provide a comprehensive overview of the functionality offered and possible applications and user interactions involved. In the diagram, functionalities that already existed in the first version of the tool described in works 12‐15 are represented with gray boxes, while functionalities that were added later and are explained in detail in this article are indicated with green boxes. As can be seen from the use cases diagram, the tool offers some basic project management functions, in particular, each user, after registering and logging in, can create their project within which they can upload all the OWL, BPMN and Prolog files to work with.…”

“…Currently, the inference rules already implemented in the tool are few, and allow to search for semantic annotations inserted by the user, to search for paths in the BPMN without cycles by performing graph traversals via Prolog, or to check whether a BPMN follows an appropriate business process pattern BPP. As an example, the execution of the inference rule “ viewSemanticAnnotation ” on Prolog facts obtained from the Campania Region Public Calls Ontology described in the work 13 is shown in Figure 11.…”

“…in works [12][13][14][15] are represented with gray boxes, while functionalities that were added later and are explained in detail in this article are indicated with green boxes. As can be seen from the use cases diagram, the tool offers some basic project management functions, in particular, each user, after registering and logging in, can create their project within which they can upload all the OWL, BPMN and Prolog files to work with.…”

“…The methodology used by the BPMN semantic annotation tool described in this article has already been partially described in works. [12][13][14][15][16] The methodology, described in Figure 2, is based on the construction of several general purpose agnostic ontologies built with the OWL language, which are subsequently linked to a domain ontology describing aspects regarding the chosen application domain. The BPMN2Ontology is a pre-existing ontology that semantically describes all structural aspects of a generic BPMN, and it is defined in Reference 17.…”