Business-OWL (BOWL)-a hierarchical task network ontology for dynamic business process decomposition and formulation

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 246-259

  Ko, Ryan K L ^a   Lee, E W ^b   Lee, S G ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

computer supported collaborative work; electronic data interchange; intelligent web services and semantic web; ontology design; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS COLLABORATION; BUSINESS GOALS; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING LANGUAGES; BUSINESS TO BUSINESS; COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS PROCESS; DYNAMIC BUSINESS; ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION; HIERARCHICAL TASK NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT WEB; ONTOLOGY DESIGN; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; ORDER QUANTITY; PRODUCT NAME; PURCHASE ORDERS; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; PURCHASING; WEB SERVICES; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861933496     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2011.48     Document Type: Article

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