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Conceptual graphs for representing business processes in corporate memories

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Conceptual Structures: Theory, Tools and Applications (ICCS 1998)

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This paper presents the second part of a study conducted at DMR Consulting Group during the development of a corporate memory. It presents a comparison of four major formalisms for the representation of business processes: UML (Unified Modeling Language), PIF (Process Interchange Format), WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition) framework and conceptual graphs. This comparison shows that conceptual graphs are the best suited formalism for representing business processes in the given context. Our ongoing implementation of the DMR corporate memory — used by several hundred DMR consultants around the world — is based on conceptual graphs, and preliminary experience indicates that this formalism indeed offers the flexibility required for representing the intricacies of business processes.

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  1. 1200 McGill College, DMR Consulting Group Inc., H3B 4G7, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Olivier Gerbé

  2. Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 Succursale Centre-Ville, H3C 3J7, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Rudolf K. Keller

  3. Université Laval, G1K 7P4, Québec, Québec, Canada

    Guy W. Mineau

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Gerbé, O., Keller, R.K., Mineau, G.W. (1998). Conceptual graphs for representing business processes in corporate memories. In: Mugnier, ML., Chein, M. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Theory, Tools and Applications. ICCS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054931

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