Optimizations for Decision Making and Planning in Description Logic Dynamic Knowledge Bases
This work addresses the problem of integrating planning into artifact-centric business processes for domain practitioners, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing Description Logic and action-based approaches.
The paper tackled the lack of explicit planning frameworks in artifact-centric business process models by proposing Dynamic Knowledge Bases, a formal environment using Description Logic-based ontologies and actions, which enables decision making and planning techniques for such domains.
Artifact-centric models for business processes recently raised a lot of attention, as they manage to combine structural (i.e. data related) with dynamical (i.e. process related) aspects in a seamless way. Many frameworks developed under this approach, although, are not built explicitly for planning, one of the most prominent operations related to business processes. In this paper, we try to overcome this by proposing a framework named Dynamic Knowledge Bases, aimed at describing rich business domains through Description Logic-based ontologies, and where a set of actions allows the system to evolve by modifying such ontologies. This framework, by offering action rewriting and knowledge partialization, represents a viable and formal environment to develop decision making and planning techniques for DL-based artifact-centric business domains.