Facultatea de Științe Economice și Gestiunea Afacerilor
Str. Teodor Mihali nr. 58-60
Cluj-Napoca, RO-400951
Tel.: 0264-41.86.52-5
Fax: 0264-41.25.70
econ@econ.ubbcluj.ro
www.econ.ubbcluj.ro
DETAILED SYLLABUS
Semantic Business Process Management
1. Information about the study program
1.1 University
1.2 Faculty
1.3 Department
1.4 Field of study
1.5 Program level (bachelor or
master)
1.6 Study program /
Qualification
Babeș Bolyai
Economic Sciences and Business Administration
Business Information Systems
Business Information Systems
Master
Business Modelling and Distributed Computing
2. Information about the subject
2.1 Subject title
Semantic Business Process Management
2.2 Course activities professor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Andrei Buchmann
2.3 Seminar activities
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Andrei Buchmann
professor
2.4 Year of
2.6 Type of
II 2.5 Semester I
Summative 2.7 Subject regime Mandatory
study
assessment
3. Total estimated time (teaching hours per semester)
3.1 Number of hours per week
3.4 Total number of hours in
the curriculum
out of which: 3.2
course
out of which: 3.5
56
course
4
2
28
3.3
seminar/laboratory
3.6
seminar/laboratory
2
28
Hour
s
Study based on textbook, course support, references and notes
45
Additional documentation in the library, through specialized databases and field activities 40
Preparing seminars/laboratories, essays, portfolios and reports
45
Tutoring
10
Assessment (examinations)
4
Others activities ...................................
0
3.7 Total hours for individual
144
study
3.8 Total hours per semester
200
3.9 Number of credits
8
Time distribution
4. Preconditions (if necessary)
1
NOTE: This document represents an informal translation performed by the faculty.
4.1 Curriculum
4.2 Skills
Not necessary
Basic programming skills
5. Conditions (if necessary)
5.1. For course
development
5.2. For seminar /
laboratory
development
Notebook, beamer, Internet connection
Computers with Internet connection
6. Acquired specific competences
Professional
competences




Transversal
competences

The ability to extend business process modelling languages with domainspecific or requirements-based semantics
The ability to serialize and process the semantics captured by business process
modelling languages
The ability to integrate business process model semantics with run-time serverside or client-side functionality
Knowledge on frameworks for describing business processes and web services
in machine-readable semantic representations
Commitment to the specific roles and responsibilities within teams that are
developing enterprise information systems
7. Subject objectives (arising from the acquired specific competences)
7.1 Subject’s general objective

7.2 Specific objectives





Students must become familiar with the fundamental
principles and a basic toolset for analyzing and executing
business process models enriched by enterprise context
semantics;
Students must become familiar with design-time
principles for Web-based semantics-driven modelling;
Students must become familiar with run-time
technologies for processing and publishing semantics on
the Web;
Students must be able to setup and query an integrated
Linked Data-Linked Model base in Sesame;
Students must be able to develop a modelling tool that
produces query-able model information;
Students must be able to develop a tool/website that
consumes integrated Linked Data and model information
for process execution purposes.
8. Contents
8.1 Course
Teaching
methods
Observations
2
NOTE: This document represents an informal translation performed by the faculty.
Lecture,
open
discussion
Lecture,
Foundations (2): Formal foundations for reasoning – Description
open
Logics
discussion
Lecture,
Foundations (3): The Business Process Management paradigm
open
(overview)
discussion
Lecture,
Foundations (4): Business Process Automation and Web Services open
discussion
Lecture,
Foundations (5): The convergence of Business Process
open
Management and Semantic Web Services
discussion
Lecture,
Modelling and Analysis of Semantic Business Processes (1): Metaopen
modelling principles and platforms
discussion
Lecture,
Modelling and Analysis of Semantic Business Processes (2):
open
Modelling Methods for Semantic Business Processes
discussion
Lecture,
Modelling and Analysis of Semantic Business Processes (3):
open
Scenario-driven Business Processes – The ComVantage project
discussion
Lecture,
Modelling and Analysis of Semantic Business Processes (4):
open
Semantics-awareness in Business Information Systems
discussion
Lecture,
Modelling and Analysis of Semantic Business Processes (5):
open
Semantic integration of Conceptual Models with Linked Data
discussion
Lecture,
Modelling and Analysis of Semantic Business Processes (6):
open
Semantic integration of Conceptual Models with ontologies
discussion
Lecture,
Automation Of Semantic Business Processes (1): The Semantic
open
Web Services paradigm
discussion
Lecture,
Automation Of Semantic Business Processes (2): The WSMF and
open
OWL-S frameworks
discussion
Lecture,
Automation Of Semantic Business Processes (4): Service
open
Discovery, Composition and Mediation
discussion
Foundations (1): The Linked Data and Semantic Web paradigms
(overview)
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
1 lecture
3
NOTE: This document represents an informal translation performed by the faculty.
References:
1. Allemang D., Hendler J., Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, 2nd Edition, Morgan
Kaufman 2011
2. Wood D., Linked Enterprise Data, Springer, 2010
3. Baader F., Calvanese D., The Description Logic Handbook, Cambridge UP, 2010
4. Public documentation of the Comvantage FP7 project: http://comvantage.eu
5. Public documentation of the SUPER EU project: http://ip-super.org
6. Web Service Modelling Ontology (http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSMO/)
7. OWL-S (http://www.w3.org/Submission/OWL-S/)
8. Studer R., Grimm S., Abecker A. (eds): Semantic Web Services. Concepts,
Technologies, Applications, Springer 2007
9. Fensel D., Facca F.M., Simperl E., Toma I.: Semantic Web Services, Springer 2011
Teaching
8.2 Seminar/laboratory
Observations
methods
Demonstrative example case
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Modelling and validating Linked Data
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Managing and accessing Linked Data servers
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Metamodelling platforms
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Metamodelling for the ComVantage project
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Modelling for the ComVantage project
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Modelling language semantics customization
Running
1 sem./lab.
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
4
NOTE: This document represents an informal translation performed by the faculty.
Semantic lifting of legacy data sources (D2RQ, XLWrap)
Semantic lifting of model and metamodel information
Querying model information
Ontology-model integration
Semantic description of Web Services
Running
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Running
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Running
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Running
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
Running
examples and
individual
exercises/
homework
1 sem./lab.
1 sem./lab.
2 sem./lab.
1 sem./lab.
2 sem./lab.
References:
1. BOC Group, ADOxx metamodeling platform: http://adoxx.org
2. BOC Group. ADONIS Community Edition. http://www.adoniscommunity.com/
3. Eclipse Modelling Framework. http://eclipse.org/modeling/emf/
4. MetaCase. MetaEdit+. http://www.metacase.com/products.html
5. OMILab ComVantage prototypes: http://omilab.org/web/comvantage.home
6. Open Group (2011). TOGAF® Enterprise Edition version 9.1,
http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
7. Open Group (2013). ArchiMate® 2.1 Specification,
http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/
8. Wood D., Linked Enterprise Data, Springer, 2010
9. Corroboration / validation of the subject’s content in relation to the expectations
coming from representatives of the epistemic community, of the professional
associations and of the representative employers in the program’s field.
 The subject has been a key element of recent EU research projects (ComVantage, SUPER)
which are involved here as exemplary cases, motivational background and through the
didactic inclusion of some of their public results
 The subject is a key component of emerging industrial paradigms such as Industry 4.0,
Factories of the Future, Internet of Things
10. Assessment (examination)
5
NOTE: This document represents an informal translation performed by the faculty.
Type of activity 10.1 Assessment criteria
10.2 Assessment methods
10.4 Course
Multiple choice test grid to evaluate Multiple choice quizz
theoretical knowledge on concepts
10.5 Seminar/
laboratory
Integration scenario requirements
Modelling requirements


Query requirements
Metamodel and schema consistency 

10.6 Minimum performance standard
• Minimum 50% of points for the course component
• Minimum 50% of points for the seminar component
Date of filling
19.01.2015
Signature of the course professor
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Andrei Buchmann .
Date of approval by the department
28.01.2015..........................................
Evaluation of integrated
implementation
Evaluation of modelling
language design
Modelling exercise
Querying exercise
10.3 Weight
in the final
grade
40%
40%
10%
5%
5%
Signature of the seminar professor
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robert Andrei Buchmann.
Head of department’s signature
Prof. habil. Dr. Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi......................
6
NOTE: This document represents an informal translation performed by the faculty.