The srBPA ontology: A formal representation of the Riva-based business process architecture

Author

Yousef, Rana ; Odeh, Mohammed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Inf. Syst., Univ. of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

fYear

2011

fDate

6-8 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper describes the development of the srBPA ontology, which is a formal ontology that conceptualizes the elements of the Riva-based business process architecture and the relationships between them. This ontology was instantiated using the UWE´s CEMS faculty administration case study in an attempt to assess the correctness and the usefulness of the developed ontology. The assessment revealed that the srBPA ontology contributes remarkably as a source of business knowledge describing the process architecture of an organization to be semantically extracted and reused.

Keywords

business data processing; formal specification; ontologies (artificial intelligence); organisational aspects; software architecture; Riva-based business process architecture; UWE CEMS faculty administration case study; business knowledge; formal ontology; formal representation; organization; srBPA ontology; Computer architecture; Computers; Electrical engineering; OWL; Ontologies; Organizations; Business process architecture; Ontology; The Riva method;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT), 2011 IEEE Jordan Conference on

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1083-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AEECT.2011.6132537

Filename

6132537