Putting Business into Business Process Models

Author

Decreus, Ken ; Poels, Geert

Author_Institution

Fac. of Econ. & Bus. Adm., Ghent Univ., Ghent

fYear

2008

fDate

July 28 2008-Aug. 1 2008

Firstpage

1005

Lastpage

1010

Abstract

The paper outlines an approach to link business models, based on enterprise ontology, with semantic business process models that are expressed with BPMO concepts and linked to WSMO concepts. The integration of business modelling and business process modelling ensures that the requirements for a Business Process Management System are driven by business objectives. At the same time it allows for flexibility inthe modelling process as underspecified elements in early requirements models are gradually refined intofully specified elements in late requirements models. The integration of both types of models is done via concepts of the i* approach to goal-oriented requirements engineering.

Keywords

business data processing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); Business Process Management System; enterprise ontology; semantic business process models; Application software; Computer applications; Design engineering; Information analysis; Information systems; Management information systems; Object oriented modeling; Ontologies; Prototypes; System analysis and design; enterprise modelling; goal-modelling; super;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications, 2008. COMPSAC '08. 32nd Annual IEEE International

Conference_Location

Turku

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3262-2

Electronic_ISBN

0730-3157

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.110

Filename

4591711