Development of workflows based on ontologies

Abstract

Modern society is impossible without the digital economy, which increasingly provides a significant amount of services, guaranteeing technological efficiency and innovation, constantly updating technologies and services, adapting them to the needs of the end user, reconfiguring complex software systems. All of this requires constant workflows reengineering in subject areas, and, accordingly, an increase in the level of their automation. At the same time, there are currently no efficient solutions for automated workflows reengineering. This article presents an approach to the computational workflows construction, which is based on well-defined ontological models of the domain, an ontological model of a set of rules for building connections between functional services, and an ontological model of the workflows themselves that are dynamically generated. The research of this approach has been carried out and the prototype for the automated computational workflows construction has been developed. The usage of the proposed approach will increase the level of automation of the computational workflows’ construction, generate workflows "on the fly" based on a previously prepared pool of functional services and restrictions imposed by the ontology domain.