An Application Suite for Service Enabled Workflow

Recently our research group introduced the notion of Service Enabled Workflow (SEW) with the integration of Semantic Web Service and Workflow. SEW considers workflow as a collection of tasks with specific control flow where tasks are carried out as services. In this paper, we present a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based integrated application suite to design and develop ontology-based SEWs. Quality-aware semantic web services for tasks in a workflow, more closely aligned to the needs of the consumer through the use of ontology matching, are discovered, selected, composed and executed automatically by a smart phone- based software agent. We evaluate the effectiveness of the application suite using a case study where we introduced service enabled functionality for tasks in a simplified workflow.