Towards ontology-based collaboration framework based on messaging system

Abstract

This paper proposes a collaboration framework to support the participants to realise the workflow of business process transaction regarding the message exchange. The collaboration framework is implemented into functional management layers: business process, ontology and technical layer. In ontology management layer, a collaboration ontology is created and used for realising the collaboration messages. The sequence diagram and state diagram are designed according the requirement of business process management to model the collaboration flow. In technical management layer, the framework is implemented on the JMS messaging platform. A scenario of logistics collaboration is demonstrated and it shows that effective collaboration can be achieved. In addition, a discussion of job tracking is presented to suggest how the system benefits from the ontology-based collaboration description. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.