May the Ontologies Be with You! Towards a User-Friendly Web-Based Editor for Semantic Web Service Description

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Blakowski ◽  
Philipp Brune
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Semantic Web Service ◽  
Web Based ◽  
User Friendly

An Ontological Business Process Modeling Approach for Public Administration

2012 ◽  
pp. 535-563
Author(s):  
Ioannis Savvas ◽  
Nick Bassiliades ◽  
Kalliopi Kravari ◽  
Georgios Meditskos
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Semantic Web Service ◽  
General Methodology ◽  
Electronic Model ◽  
Administration Procedure

In this chapter, an electronic model of Public Administration’s operation using an ontology as a means to a formalized representation of knowledge is presented. According to the proposed model, every public administration procedure is viewed as a service offered to some external entity and is represented as a (Semantic) Web service, semantically annotating its functional parameters, profile, and workflow. The modeling of public administration services/procedures involved the commonly used IOPE (Inputs – Outputs – Preconditions – Effects) model of OWL-S for Semantic Web Service description. This chapter also presents a specific use case about the Human Resource Management department of the Region of Central Macedonia. In order to do so, certain extensions/adaptations of the general methodology were needed. In this chapter the authors fully present and justify these adaptations that were deployed in order to turn the general methodology into a really flexible and re-usable tool to model any public administration procedure. Furthermore, the authors describe the full knowledge engineering cycle for developing the ontology of this department’s business processes.

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