Supporting Collaboration through Semantic-based Workflow and Constraint Solving
Yun-Heh Chen-Burger, Dr. Yun-Heh and Hui, Dr. Kit-Ying and Preece, Dr. Alun D. and Gray, Prof. Peter M. D. and Tate, Prof. Austin (2004) Supporting Collaboration through Semantic-based Workflow and Constraint Solving. 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW), Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK..
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This paper describes our efforts to provide a collaborative problem solving architecture driven by semantic-based workflow orchestration and constraint problem solving. These technologies are based on shared ontologies that allows two systems of very different natures to communicate, perform specialised tasks and achieve common goals. We give an account of our approach for the workflow assisted collaboration with constraint solving capabilities. We found that systems built with semantic (web) based technologies is useful for collaboration and flexible to enhance the system with specialised capabilities. However, much care must be exercised before correct semantics may be exchanged and collaborations occur smoothly.
| Keywords: | Virtual Organisation, Constraint Satisfaction, Business Process Modelling, IDEF3, Ontology, NIST PSL, Semantic Web, Semantic Grid. |
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| Subjects: | AKT Challenges > Knowledge reuse AKT Challenges > Knowledge acquisition AKT Challenges > Knowledge publishing AKT Challenges > Knowledge modelling |
| ID Code: | 351 |
| Deposited By: | Chen-Burger, Dr. Jessica |
| Deposited On: | 07 July 2004 |
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