Enhancing the Formal Foundations of BPMN by Enterprise Ontology

Nuffel, Dieter Van; Mulder, Hans B. F.; Kervel, Steven J. H. van

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01915-9_9

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“…Recently, there is an increase in the application of requirements engineering to create and design the business process [1]. Moreover, to understand the importance of defining the business process, John Wheeler shows that existing costs expended to understand the business processes (BP) exceed the costs expended on technology deployed to support the enterprise (10% to 15% spent on technology, 30% to 40% spent on understanding BP requirements) [2].…”

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Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering: User-Centric LORS Framework

Al-Sabri¹,

Al‐Mashari²

2017

JSEA

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In recent years, the process orientation requirements engineering field has received significant interest. However, dealing with ordinary users within an enterprise for developing as-is business process is very complex because this requires skills, responsibility, knowledge, and expertise of business processes. This research answers the following questions: 1) how to systematically gather information regarding as-is business process requirements in an informal environment and by non-expert users? and 2) how can an enterprise refine the identified business process with a semantic process model? The primary purpose of this research is to develop a supporting framework that is suitable for the definition of an as-is business process to be deployed within the enterprise environment. Hence, the focus is on gathering requirements to define the as-is business process. This framework concentrates on three significant aspects of this process: development, refinement, and serialization the semantics of the process model. To accomplish this objective, the LORS framework has been proposed, which consists of four phases (List, Order, Refinement, and Serialization). The framework presents a new unique technique to identify the business process, refine the process, and generate the model semantics. This study assumes that a simple and complete framework will help non-expert users define a high-quality as-is process, such that enhance and facilitate the matching process with existing reference models. We present a case study, evaluate the case study relative to specified criteria, and research the limitations and implications discovered from our research. This research concludes that the LORS framework is simple, flexible, visible, interactive, dynamic, and effective.

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Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering: User-Centric LORS Framework

Al-Sabri¹,

Al‐Mashari²

2017

JSEA

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“…Business process modelling techniques can be used to analyse and communicate interand intra-organizational business processes as well as to develop business support information systems [1][2][3][4][5]. The project reported in this paper is motivated by the need to analyse the consistency of business process models.…”

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“…The Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations [12] is a methodology for the engineering and implementation of organizations that is formally grounded on the ψ-theory . Some authors state that DEMO defines a robust enterprise engineering approach as it provides a formal yet simple conceptualization of an organization that can be used a point of departure for its implementation [1,13]. DEMO can also deliver models which can be formally assessed and executed on DEMO automata [14].…”

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“…DEMO can also deliver models which can be formally assessed and executed on DEMO automata [14]. DEMO can be used to assess existing BPMN models with the purpose of verifying their consistency [1]. The main contribution is thus combining the representational capability of the BPMN standard with the formal correctness of the DEMO principles.…”

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“…Thus, this paper proposes using DEMO to help constructing consistent and complete BPMN process models [15]. The ψ-theory consists of four axioms [1,12]. We briefly describe two of these axioms due to their significance to the method put forward in this paper.…”

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An Application of the ψ-Theory to the Analysis of Business Process Models

Caetano¹,

Assis²,

Borbinha³

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. This paper presents a method to analyse the consistency and completeness of process models according to the principles of the ψ-theory and the underlying concept of business transaction. Transactions specify the collaborative behaviour between actors while services are being requested and provided. The method assesses the consistency of a process in terms of the business transactions that can be inferred from it. To do so, it takes as input a process model that is converted to a transactional model. The transactional model is then analysed and revised so that all transactions become consistent and complete according to the transactional pattern. This enables to identify the problems on the original process model and to prompt areas of improvement.

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