An Ontology-Driven Process Modelling Framework

Designing, analyzing and managing complex processes are recently become crucial issues in most application contexts, such as ecommerce, business process (re-)engineering, Web/grid computing. In this paper, we propose a framework that supports the designer in the definition and in the analysis of complex processes by means of several facilities for reusing, customizing and generalizing existent process components. To this aim we tightly integrate process models with a domain ontology and an activity ontology, so providing a sematic vision of the application context and of the processes themselves. A software architecture fully supporting our framework is also presented and discussed.