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PROMPTUM Toolset: Tool Support for Integrated Ontologies and Process Models

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Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2016)

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Business process models and ontologies are two essential knowledge artifacts that utilize similar information sources. In this sense, building and managing the relationships between ontologies and business process models provide benefits such as enhanced semantic quality of both artifacts and effort savings. In this study, the PROMPTUM toolset, that enables to model relations between the ontologies and the labels within the process model collections, is presented. In establishing these relations, the PROMPTUM toolset enables definition and management of labels and terms within labels of the process models and the process model elements as resources of domain ontologies. Thus, a related resource is managed as a single resource representing the same real-world object in both artifacts in both creation and maintenance. By providing the required features, the toolset supports not only building business process models and domain ontologies together but also building business process models by using existing ontologies and developing ontologies by using business process model collections.

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The work presented was partly funded by TUBITAK (project number: 3130770).

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  1. Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ahmet Coşkunçay, Özge Gürbüz & Onur Demirörs

  2. Galaksiya Bilişim Teknolojileri, İzmir, Turkey

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Coşkunçay, A., Gürbüz, Ö., Demirörs, O., Ekinci, E.E. (2017). PROMPTUM Toolset: Tool Support for Integrated Ontologies and Process Models. In: Dumas, M., Fantinato, M. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 281. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58457-7_7

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