Reengineering Patterns for Ontologizing the Business Processes

This paper discusses how to resolve knowledge gap between the business process models and the ontological models as a way to semantic interoperability among both enterprise engineering and knowledge engineering. The complexity of such a problem is reflected in the range from improving semantic exchange of the knowledge between ontologies and business processes by involving process theory to designing the reengineering patterns that can help in articulating knowledge about the business processes. In this work we have additionally
employed the DDPO (DOLCE Descriptions and Situations (D&S) Plan and Tasks Ontology) module of the DOLCE foundational ontology to serve as a formal framework for ontological description of business processes. As a result of reengineering different models into each other, two reengineering patterns that we have called WSDL-DDPO and BPEL-DDPO patterns have been noticed. The generic role of these patterns have been seen in facilitating ontological description of business processes and theirs possible (semi)automatic execution by the
workflow engine.