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Applying Some Fact Oriented Modelling Principles to Business Process Modelling

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 Workshops (OTM 2012)

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In the context of a business process modelling task within a government department, an adapted version of the first two steps of fact oriented modelling has been proposed as an alternative strategy in the initial stage of business processes knowledge elicitation activities. As expertise and knowledge on organisational processes and procedures are in many cases implicit and embodied by support staff – rather than by highly skilled knowledge workers – it is extremely important to adopt an more accessible method to facilitate the elicitation and validation steps. This paper presents how a small scale experiment has been set up, its results and lessons learnt. Even if a thorough evaluation was out of scope, the experiment sufficiently demonstrated the strength of the analysis by natural language as included in the fact oriented modelling methodology.

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  1. Vlaamse overheid – Departement Economie, Wetenschap en Innovatie, Koning Albert II-laan 35, bus 10, B-1030, Brussel, Belgium

    Peter Spyns

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

  2. Research Centre for Automatic Control, School of Engineering in Information Technology, University of Lorraine, CNRS, Campus scientifique, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. Department of Computer Science, Semantic Technology and Application Research Laboratory (STARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building G-10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  4. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

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Spyns, P. (2012). Applying Some Fact Oriented Modelling Principles to Business Process Modelling. In: Herrero, P., Panetto, H., Meersman, R., Dillon, T. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 Workshops. OTM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7567. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33618-8_46

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