An Ontological Consensus Augmented Framework for Collaborative Business Process Formulation

Dynamic cross-enterprise collaboration through business process management is one of challenges on the business-to-business integration (B2Bi) research nowadays. Semantic Web-based approaches for BPM have been foreseen as a promising solution with taking advantages of Semantic Web technologies such as ontologies, semantic web services. With the support of Semantic Web technologies, the gap between business and information technology (IT) communities has been reduced in order to tackle the challenge. Together with the development of web services and its augmented extension with Semantic Web—Semantic Web Services (SWS), recent approaches in B2Bi research focus on their business process integration between enterprises using SWS for more appropriate service discovery. Taking into account the challenge of dynamically forming collaborative business processes for B2Bi form business view into their execution, in this article, we introduce an ontological approach for forming collaboration of business processes agilely within our BizKB framework; moreover, we use the Consensus theory in distributed knowledge processing in our novel method for service discovery.