Authors:
Maya Lincoln
;
Reuven Karni
and
Avi Wasser
Affiliation:
Center for Dynamic Enterprise Modeling, The William Davidson Faculty for Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Keyword(s):
Business Process Management, ERP systems, Ontology Engineering, Process Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
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.