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The task of accurately model Business Process is steadily growing in complicatedness, partially due to the ever changing and dynamic contexts such processes are defined into, and the complexity of domain-specific concepts characterizing today’s global economic environment. Even though the modern IT provides several tools to help the Business Process modellers, they often do not offer sufficient support to the definition and interpretation of domain concepts or relationships, due to a general lack of precise domain knowledge and ambiguities in the terms used to define such concepts. Such semantic ambiguity negatively affects the efficiency and quality of Business Process modelling. To address these issues, an ontology based approach is proposed to mitigate semantic ambiguity, and a means to capture rich, semantic information on complex Business Processes through domain specific ontologies is presented. Also, a prototype tool which allows users to annotate existing BPMN models is described.
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This research has been supported by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n 256910 (mOSAIC Project), by PRIST 2009, “Fruizione assistita e context aware di siti archeologici complessi mediante dispositivi mobili” and CoSSMic (Collaborating Smart Solar-powered Micro-grids - FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013).
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Di Martino, B., Esposito, A., Maisto, S.A., Nacchia, S. (2016). A Methodology and Implementing Tool for Semantic Business Process Annotation. In: Schmidt, R., Guédria, W., Bider, I., Guerreiro, S. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 248. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39429-9_6
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