An ontology for internal and external business processes

Haller, Armin; Oren, Eyal; Kotinurmi, Paavo

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An ontology for internal and external business processes

Date

2006

Authors

Haller, Armin

Oren, Eyal

Kotinurmi, Paavo

Abstract

In this paper we introduce our multi metamodel process ontology (m3po), which is based on various existing reference models and languages from the workflow and choreography domain. This ontology allows the extraction of arbitrary choreography interface descriptions from arbitrary internal workflow models. We also report on an initial validation: we translate an IBM Websphere MQ Workflow model into the m3po ontology and then extract an Abstract BPEL model from the ontology.