An ontology for the business process modelling notation

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 267, Issue , 2014, Pages 133-146

  Rospocher, Marco ^a   Ghidini, Chiara ^a   Serafini, Luciano ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

BPMN; Business Processes; Ontology; OWL; Semantic Web

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE CONTROL; MODELING LANGUAGES; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC WEB; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING NOTATION; CONDITION; FORMAL DESCRIPTION; MODELING NOTATION; ONTOLOGY'S; OWL; PROCESS DESCRIPTIONS; SEMANTIC-WEB;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84906991358     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-438-1-133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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