Exploring a domain ontology based approach to business process design

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hua, Zhimin ^a   Zhao, J Leon ^a   Storey, Veda C ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process modeling; Conceptual modeling; Ontologies; Semantic modeling

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; BUSINESS CASE; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGN; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; CONCEPTUAL MODELING; DOMAIN CONCEPTS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; DOMAIN SEMANTICS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ONTOLOGIES; ELECTRONIC AUCTION; META MODEL; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PROCESS ONTOLOGIES; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SEMANTIC MODELING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

PROCESS DESIGN;

EID: 84870962093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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