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As the quantity of concepts and relations can grow
fast, depending on the domain, strategies based on
patterns for suggesting the next process creation step
will be included. In another paper is described a set
of workflow activity patterns which refers to descrip-
tions of recurrent business functions (Thom et al.,
2009). Some of these patterns can imply in the re-
striction of the next possible activities, for example,
after the use of the pattern X, only activities of the
pattern Y can be used. The modelling tool exports
an XML file that may be processed by the residential
control system.
6 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE
WORK
It is very important for the home care idea that the
systems developed are scalable in the dimension of
multiple locals since one of the main problems for
deploying home assistance is the increasing number
of elder people living alone. If the developed home
care systems will require the same number of people
as the present systems, the implementation of wide
spread home care will be compromised.
This paper described an approach that intends to
reduce the need of a huge number of new person-
nel for the design and implementation of home care
systems. The proposed methodology provides activ-
ities with more semantic to be employed in the pro-
cess model, making easier to understand this model
for persons as well being interpretable by automated
devices. This modelling approach can also be ap-
plied for other domains; we focus on home care in
this work. The use of a service-oriented system is
also interesting since services can be added, removed
or updated enabling the system to be context aware.
We are working to finish the prototype of the tool
for modelling the processes based on ontologies. Af-
ter that, we will work in a prototype for executing the
processes, probably based in an execution language
as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
As future work, we intend to apply more deeply
the BPMN notation, in order to verify how much in-
heritance from ontologies may be applied to model
the process. Moreover the BPMN notation doesn’t
impose much focus in the process execution and a re-
lated study should be done.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been partially supported by Conselho
selho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient
´
ıfico
e Tecnol
´
ogico (CNPq) and Coordenac¸
˜
ao de
Aperfeic¸oamento de Pessoal de N
´
ıvel Superior
(CAPES), Brazil.
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