An ontology-based semantic foundation for ARIS EPCs

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 124-130

  Santos Jr , Paulo Sérgio ^a   Almeida, João Paulo A ^a   Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ARIS; business process modeling; event driven process chains (EPCs); foundational ontologies; ontological analysis

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; EVENT DRIVEN PROCESS CHAIN; META MODEL; MODELING ELEMENTS; ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; ONTOLOGY-BASED; REAL-WORLD; SEMANTIC FOUNDATION; TOOLSETS;

SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 77954702926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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