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Virtually all areas of human endeavor involve workflows – that is, coordinated execution of multiple tasks. In practice, this requires the assembly of complex workflows from semantically heterogeneous components. In this paper, we develop ontology-extended workflow components and semantically consistent methods for assembling such components into complex ontology-extended component-based workflows. The result is a sound theoretical framework for assembly of semantically well-formed workflows from semantically heterogeneous components.
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Pathak, J., Caragea, D., Honavar, V.G. (2005). Ontology-Extended Component-Based Workflows : A Framework for Constructing Complex Workflows from Semantically Heterogeneous Software Components. In: Bussler, C., Tannen, V., Fundulaki, I. (eds) Semantic Web and Databases. SWDB 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3372. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31839-2_4
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