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Semantic annotation of BPMN: current approaches and new methodologies

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Beniamino Di Martino,

Antonio Esposito,

Stefania Nacchia,

Salvatore Augusto MaistoAuthors Info & Claims

iiWAS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2837185.2837257

Published: 11 December 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Business Process management has attracted the attention of companies and organizations, which have heavily invested in the research and development of tools and standards for process representation and business requirement formalization. Several tools have been produced for the representation and management of Business processes, and many companies have designed their enterprise models using business process standards. In this paper we analyse different approaches to enrich the existing standards, in particular the Business Process Model Notation (BPMN), with the semantic information provided by OWL ontologies. We also discuss the motivations behind the need of a semantic annotation for Business Processes and provide an overview of existing research efforts and results.

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Index Terms

Semantic annotation of BPMN: current approaches and new methodologies
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
    1. Business process management
      1. Business process modeling
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Document representation
      1. Ontologies

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DOI:10.1145/2837185

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