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.