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A framework for the collaborative specification of semantically annotated business processes

Authors:

Chiara Di Francescomarino,

Chiara Ghidini,

Marco Rospocher,

Luciano Serafini,

Paolo TonellaAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Volume 23, Issue 4

Pages 261 - 295

https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.525

Published: 01 June 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Semantic annotations are a way to provide a precise meaning to business process elements, which supports reasoning on properties and constraints. Among the obstacles preventing widespread adoption of semantic annotations are the technical skills required to manage the formalization of the semantics and the difficulty of reconciling the different viewpoints of different analysts working on the same business process. In this paper, we support business analysts in the collaborative annotation of business processes by means of a tool inspired to the Wiki pages model. Using this tool, analysts can concurrently work on process elements, ontology concepts, process annotation or constraint specification. The underlying formalism is not exposed in the Wiki pages, where natural language templates are used. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice Volume 23, Issue 4

June 2011

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Tröls MMashkoor AEgyed APretschner AVoss SBurgueño L(2019)Multifaceted consistency checking of collaborative engineering artifactsProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion10.1109/MODELS-C.2019.00044(278-287)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2019
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