Dynamic Collaborative Business Process Formulation via Ontologised Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) Planning

Ko, Ryan K. L.; Lee, Stephen S.G.; Lee, E.W.; Jusuf, A.

doi:10.1109/icws.2009.77

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“…Instead processes are described in some hardcoded notations, e.g., Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). Some researchers try to tackle this issue by applying semantic business process management (BPM) approaches, e.g., hierarchical task networks and Web ontologies [9], [14]. However, they are dealing rather with the task of generation of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) specifications, but not with the task of running and monitoring execution processes thereafter.…”

Section: Cross-enterprise Collaborative Business Processesmentioning

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Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems.

Alksnis

Asnina

Kirikova

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Abstract. In order to create innovative business products, share knowledge between people and businesses, or increase the control and quality of services, more and more often enterprise business processes involve in collaborations by delegating or providing some pieces of work to other enterprises. Necessity to cooperate in the cross-enterprise setting leads to Collaborative Business Processes (CBPs). The difference between CBPs and Business Processes (BPs) is in the decentralized coordination, flexible backward recovery, participants notification about the state, efficient adaptability to changes, presence of multiple information systems, and individual authorization settings. In the paper we consider a specific case of CBPs where multiple collaborating partners use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system of the same vendor. The vendor can see (e.g., monitor) the changes of data elements, but does not have explicit process awareness in the ERP system to support flow of activities in the crossenterprise setting. The paper also discusses different settings of cross-enterprise CBP and shows simplified enterprise models behind the vendor possibilities to positively impact collaborative processes. The restrictions of the vendor are implicit information flows in BP, diversity of ERP integrations with third party Information Systems (IS), the lack of mechanisms for monitoring BP instances, backward recovery, user notification about the current state and tasks, and inability to make explicit changes in customers' ISs.

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Section: Cross-enterprise Collaborative Business Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems.

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Asnina

Kirikova

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“…Having discussed the industry standardisation efforts and practitioners' approach to managing cBP's in Chapter 4, we will now turn our attention to interdisciplinary cBP methodologies proposed by researchers. The rapid emergence of research in Service-Oriented Computing [138,139,[161][162][163], Semantic Web [164][165][166][167], the Pragmatic Web [93,[168][169][170], dynamic formulations of cBP [171][172][173] and the ad-hoc matchmaking of cBP [44,45,[174][175][176][177] underscore the fact that most current B2B information exchange systems deal with only the syntactic aspect of understanding and the static modelling of processes. In this chapter, we shall discuss and identify gaps in current and relevant cBP research attempting to address the semantic modelling gap and the dynamic formulation and composition of cBP.…”

Section: Cross-enterprise Business Process (Cbp) Researchmentioning

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“…splits, sequence, concurrency). Some earlier literature of the top-down approach [5,163] tried to discover the optimum number of levels to decompose goals into, but recent approaches [172,173,187] have dismissed such intentions as unrealistic. There is simply no optimum number of levels to decompose to.…”

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A hybrid hierarchical task network planning and ontological approach for dynamic cross-enterprise business process formulation

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Every day, information is transacted in the Internet across different enterprises in business-tobusiness (B2B) collaborations. In a bid to manage the growing volume and complexity of supply chain information, many companies are turning to business process management systems (BPMS) and systems supporting B2B collaboration standards such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), RosettaNet and ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language). According to a 2007 Gartner report, the BPMS market reached nearly US$1.7 billion in total software revenue at the end of 2006. This is testimony to a rapid growth of interest in business process management (BPM) over the last decade. Despite this growth, many current techniques are still static in nature, requiring substantial modifications/ (re)coding to re-establish the link between collaborating companies. Such modifications are expensive and impractical in a dynamic, global business environment characterized by frequent, rapid changes. At the same time, many prominent business process (BP) modelling techniques are rooted in computer process theories like state machines, Pi Calculus and Petri Nets, which are computationally efficient but are void of context and semantics so necessary in very complex, multi-party, high level business communications. Most importantly, these BP modelling techniques cannot dynamically synthesise business processes based on a user's high-level business goals and constraints. The goal of this thesis is to discover, implement, test and verify a technique that enables agile B2B collaborations through the dynamic formulation of cross-enterprise business processes based on high-level user business goals and criteria. An extensive literature review into current BP research, industry best practices, BP modeling standards and B2B industry standards, revealed that the realization of this goal is contingent upon solving four sub-problems: (1) the problem of decomposing high level business goals and constraints (e.g. item price, lead time) on-the-fly into corresponding low-level tasks of adequate granularity, (2) the task of dynamically chaining these decomposed low-level tasks with the appropriate control and information flows, (3) the problem of representing the semantic characteristics and relationships between business processes components (e.g. tasks, sub-tasks, actors, methods of decomposition, control flow, etc.) and (4) the chained low-level tasks have to be implemented openly and directly on the WWW. These four sub-problems were addressed by a hybrid methodology which entails the dynamic decomposition and sequencing of tasks facilitated by Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning concepts, and the adoption of ontologies. HTN Planning employs so-called methods to establish the various permutations by which high level business processes can be © Ryan K. L. Ko, 2011 vi decomposed into primitive tasks which are chained sequentially in a single level from left-toright. Current business processes in industry do not use these methods. However, t...

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Ontology-based approaches for cross-enterprise collaboration: a literature review on semantic business process management

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Jung

Tran³

2013

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Dynamic Collaborative Business Process Formulation via Ontologised Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) Planning

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems.

Enabling Support of Collaborative Cross-enterprise Business Processes for Legacy ERP Systems.

A hybrid hierarchical task network planning and ontological approach for dynamic cross-enterprise business process formulation

Ontology-based approaches for cross-enterprise collaboration: a literature review on semantic business process management

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