Simulation of analytical activity scenarios based on BPMN notation and OWL

• Дата: 2020
• Автори: Dodonov, O. G., Senchenko, V. R., Koval, О. В., Boychenko, A. V.
• Формат: Стаття
• Мова: Ukrainian
• Опубліковано: Інститут проблем реєстрації інформації НАН України 2020
• Теми: аналітична діяльність; сценарії; BPMN нотація; BPMN-модель; онтологія; OWL-модель; конвертація XPDL; analytical activity; scenario; BPMN notation; BPMN-model; ontology; OWL-model; XPDL conversion
• Онлайн доступ: http://drsp.ipri.kiev.ua/article/view/207782
• Назва журналу: Data Recording, Storage & Processing

A theoretical approach to the modeling of analytical activity (AnA) scenarios using technologies that are inherent in BPM-systems (Business Process Management) with the so-called model driven (managed model), as well as using web language ontologies (OWL) has been proposed. The peculiarity of the approach with a managed model is that the development of scenarios has been carried out in terms of the subject domain (SD), rather than a computer environment for their implementation. By analogy with business processes, AnA scenarios has be represented by a set of process models in BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) notation. The models interact within a common scenario, and each model has a beginning and an end. However, as a result of the analyst's subjective perception of the SD specifications, there are always errors in modeling scenarios, especially if insufficiently related tasks or subprocesses because the features of different flow objects (tasks, subprocesses, gateways, events) and the rules of their connection are not taken into account. To form an additional formal description, has proposed to use a semantic OWL-model (script in XML), which is perceived by BPMN notation. The use of ontologies has opened up additional perspective for providing processes with semantics for processing using Web technologies. The ontology helps to conceptualize the unstructured information that is present in the OWL scenario model and that needs to study. In this context, this paper presents the technological process of converting a BPMN-model into an OWL-model, which allows you to request information about the model. This demonstrated by the example of modeling the scenario of analytical activities in the editor BizAgi Process Modeler. The developed scenarios in BPMN model AnA are converted into an OWL file using BPMN-to-S-BPM-Ontology. Then, the OWL file is studied by the Protégé 5. The proposed approach to scenario modeling offers a number of advantages — starting with a significant simplification of the process of modeling and validation of AnA scenario in the BPMN — OWL integrated environment and, finally, the implementation of the model in the environment of standard BPM-systems for use by non-specialists without losing the necessary expressiveness. Fig.: 7. Refs: 23 titles.