Workflows Generation based on the Domain Ontology

Abstract

The paper describes the approach to automation of the design of workflows and their components (functional services, communications and rules of interaction) by computer-aided generation of both a set of services that are components of workflows and the sequence of their execution, using ontologies – meta-models of workflows, services, domain, logical rules that establish relationships between functional services. The application of the proposed approach allowed to generate workflows based on the parameters defined in the meta-model (ontology) of the register of services and limitations imposed by the domain ontology, taking into account both functional and non-functional requirements, realizing the transformation of the workflow in its program execution models regardless of the calculation. For the computer-aided workflows generation, a software environment has been developed, the performance of which is tested on the example of workflow generation with the use of IT TODOS tools for constructing and modifying ontologies and generating a workflow scheme using BPMN.