A FRAMEWORK FOR ONTOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION OF BUSINESS PROCESS CONTENT

Maya Lincoln, Reuven Karni, Avi Wasser

2007

Abstract

One of the main challenges currently facing the world of enterprise information technology in general and ERP/SCM/CRM systems in particular, is visibility into the business of organizations. The prevalent approach utilizes conceptual business process modeling as the foundation for creating and managing this visibility, aiming to connect business activity and its supporting information technology. While the phenomena of devising structural execution frameworks is widespread in academia, there have been few attempts to develop theory, empirical studies and supporting methods for the structured generation and customization of complete business process models that also include actual content. These models move beyond structural data modeling in the sense that they add semantics and relationships of actual business essence. The research suggests a framework and a set of methods for the organization and structured ontological construction of business process content.

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Lincoln M., Karni R. and Wasser A. (2007). A FRAMEWORK FOR ONTOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION OF BUSINESS PROCESS CONTENT . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 257-263. DOI: 10.5220/0002393902570263


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Maya Lincoln and Reuven Karni and Avi Wasser},
title={A FRAMEWORK FOR ONTOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION OF BUSINESS PROCESS CONTENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={257-263},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002393902570263},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A FRAMEWORK FOR ONTOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION OF BUSINESS PROCESS CONTENT
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Lincoln M.
AU - Karni R.
AU - Wasser A.
PY - 2007
SP - 257
EP - 263
DO - 10.5220/0002393902570263