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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050715
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Ontology Mapping of Business Process Modeling Based on Formal Temporal Logic

Author 1: Irfan Chishti
Author 2: Jixin Ma
Author 3: Brian Knight

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 5 Issue 7, 2014.

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Abstract: A business process is the combination of a set of activities with logical order and dependence, whose objective is to produce a desired goal. Business process modeling (BPM) using knowledge of the available process modeling techniques enables a common understanding and analysis of a business process. Industry and academics use informal and formal techniques respectively to represent business processes (BP), having the main objective to support an organization. Despite both are aiming at BPM, the techniques used are quite different in their semantics. While carrying out literature research, it has been found that there is no general representation of business process modeling is available that is expressive than the commercial modeling tools and techniques. Therefore, it is primarily conceived to provide an ontology mapping of modeling terms of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Unified Modeling Language (UML) Activity Diagrams (AD) and Event Driven Process Chains (EPC) to temporal logic. Being a formal system, first order logic assists in thorough understanding of process modeling and its application. However, our contribution is to devise a versatile conceptual categorization of modeling terms/constructs and also formalizing them, based on well accepted business notions, such as action, event, process, connector and flow. It is demonstrated that the new categorization of modeling terms mapped to formal temporal logic, provides the expressive power to subsume business process modeling techniques i.e. BPMN, UML AD and EPC.

Keywords: Business Process Modeling techniques; Ontology; Temporal Logic; Semantics; Mapping

Irfan Chishti, Jixin Ma and Brian Knight, “Ontology Mapping of Business Process Modeling Based on Formal Temporal Logic” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 5(7), 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050715

@article{Chishti2014,
title = {Ontology Mapping of Business Process Modeling Based on Formal Temporal Logic},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050715},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050715},
year = {2014},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {5},
number = {7},
author = {Irfan Chishti and Jixin Ma and Brian Knight}
}



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