A Development Method for Ontology Based Business Processes

In this paper we show our development method for executable ontology based business processes. The main goal is the reusable, automatic generation of workflows based on ontologies derived from business process models. In our methodology the focus is given to the mapping the conceptual models to ontology models by using meta-modeling approach. In our proposed approach we establish the links between business model elements and ontology concepts. The „conceptual models ontology models” converter maps the Adonis model elements of a business process to the appropriate ontology elements in meta-level. The key ambition in our methodology is to capitalize the synergy between the collaborative use of modern application development paradigms and methods in order to generate automated workflow software.