Supporting Process Model Development with Enterprise-Specific Ontologies

Nadejda Alkhaldi, Sven Casteleyn, Frederik Gailly

2014

Abstract

Within an enterprise, different models – even of the same type - are typically created by different modellers. Those models use different terminology, are based on different semantics and are thus hard to integrate. A possible solution is using an enterprise-specific ontology as a reference during model creation. This allows basing all the models created within one enterprise upon a shared semantic repository, mitigating the need for model integration and promoting interoperability. The challenge here is that the enterprise-specific ontology can be very extensive, making it hard for the modeller to select the appropriate ontology concepts to associate with model elements. In this paper we focus on process modelling, and develop a method that uses four different matching mechanisms to suggest the most relevant enterprise-specific ontology concepts to the modeller while he is creating the model. The first two utilize string and semantic matching techniques (i.e., synonyms) to compare the BPMN construct’s label with enterprise-specific ontology concepts. The other two exploit the formally defined grounding of the enterprise ontology in a core ontology to make suggestions, based on the BPMN construct type and the relative position (in the model). We show how our method leads to semantically annotated process models, and demonstrate it using an ontology in the financial domain.

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Alkhaldi N., Casteleyn S. and Gailly F. (2014). Supporting Process Model Development with Enterprise-Specific Ontologies . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-029-1, pages 236-248. DOI: 10.5220/0004899402360248


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@conference{iceis14,
author={Nadejda Alkhaldi and Sven Casteleyn and Frederik Gailly},
title={Supporting Process Model Development with Enterprise-Specific Ontologies },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={236-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004899402360248},
isbn={978-989-758-029-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Supporting Process Model Development with Enterprise-Specific Ontologies
SN - 978-989-758-029-1
AU - Alkhaldi N.
AU - Casteleyn S.
AU - Gailly F.
PY - 2014
SP - 236
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0004899402360248