Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals
Communications of the ACM
Business process modelling with ARIS: a practical guide
Business process modelling with ARIS: a practical guide
Aris-Business Process Modeling
Aris-Business Process Modeling
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
Using ontology to validate conceptual models
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
A configurable reference modelling language
Information Systems
Metrics for Process Models: Empirical Foundations of Verification, Error Prediction, and Guidelines for Correctness
From business process models to process-oriented software systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Applying and extending a semantic foundation for role-related concepts in enterprise modelling
Enterprise Information Systems - Towards Model-driven Service-oriented Enterprise Computing - 12th International IEEE EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC 2008)
Organizational ontologies to support semantic business process management
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management
Verification of EPCs: using reduction rules and petri nets
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
On the elements of an enterprise: towards an ontology-based account
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
On the support for the assignment of active structure and behavior in enterprise modeling approaches
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
An ontological analysis of the notion of community in the RM-ODP enterprise language
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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This paper presents an ontological analysis of the EPC (Event-driven Process Chain) business process modeling notation supported in the ARIS Toolset. This ontological analysis provides an interpretation of the modeling elements in EPC diagrams in terms of the UFO foundational ontology. This enables us to define the precise real-world semantics for business process models represented through EPCs and allows us to identify problems affecting the clarity and expressiveness of EPCs. In our analysis, we consider an up-to-date metamodel of the ARIS Method that we have defined in our earlier work, which specifies EPCs as currently supported by the ARIS Toolset. To the best of our knowledge, the interpretation proposed here is presently the most complete ontological account for EPCs.