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Extending the REA Ontology for the Evaluation of Process Warehousing Approaches

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A data warehouse developed for analysis of business processes is called Process Warehouse (PW). The design of process warehouse is seldom evaluated, since a generic PW model that can be used as a benchmark for the evaluation is missing. Therefore, in this paper, we extend the REA ontology and use it for developing a generic PW model that can further be used as criteria for evaluation of PW design. Moreover, the generic PW model is used to evaluate various process warehousing approaches, collected through a comprehensive survey.

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    Khurram Shahzad

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  1. Open Research Society, NGO, and American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Dipartemento Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    John M. Carroll

  4. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  5. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  6. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ambjörn Naeve

  7. Creatifica Associates, Chelveston, Wellingborough, UK

    Adrian Dale

  8. University of Tampere, Finland

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  9. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Private Bag 92006, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix Tan

  10. School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Janice Sipior

  11. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Shahzad, K. (2009). Extending the REA Ontology for the Evaluation of Process Warehousing Approaches. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective. WSKS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_21

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