Extraction of topic map ontology for web service-oriented enterprises

Abstract

A Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE) is a new model of organization linking business processes and IT infrastructure across the enterprise. It can be enabled through the deployment of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). At the heart of SOA are the services that are orchestrated using message passing, action coordination etc., web services being an example. However, there is almost no standard business semantics of web services which makes them isolated and opaque. In order to provide a common understanding of business of each other organizations are using trading exchange languages like Universal Business Languages (UBL). Although, these standards provide syntactic interoperability, they do not support efficient sharing of conceptualizations. Ontology can play an important part here, by providing a formal approach to specify shared conceptualization, and thus enabling semantic interoperability. This paper presents an approach for ontology modeling for business process standards used in B2B transactions in web services in terms of a semantic web formalism, viz. Topic Map.