SADT: structured analysis and design technique
SADT: structured analysis and design technique
Software requirements: analysis and specification
Software requirements: analysis and specification
The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture
Computers in Industry - Special issue on CIM architectures
Business process re-engineering (BPR)—a study of the software tools currently available
Computers in Industry - Special issue: CIM in the extended enterprise
Object-oriented systems analysis and design
Object-oriented systems analysis and design
UML distilled (2nd ed.): a brief guide to the standard object modeling language
UML distilled (2nd ed.): a brief guide to the standard object modeling language
Conceptual process configurations in enterprise knowledge management systems
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Business information modeling for process integration in the mold making industry
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Risk management in ERP project introduction: Review of the literature
Information and Management
Enterprise systems modeling: the ERP5 development process
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
An ontology-based architecture for implementing semantic integration of supply chain management
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Development of an intelligent agent system for collaborative mold production with RFID technology
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Athena: A collaborative approach to requirements elicitation
Computers in Industry
Enterprise modeling in a service oriented architecture
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Enterprises & Organizational Modeling and Simulation
Acquiring knowledge on business processes from stakeholders' stories
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Enterprise modelling methodology for forward and reverse supply chain flows integration
Computers in Industry
Knowledge-based environment to support product design validation
Knowledge-Based Systems
Inter-Sector Practices Reform for e-Government Integration Efficacy
Journal of Cases on Information Technology
Applying collaborative process design to user requirements elicitation: A case study
Computers in Industry
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Business process modelling is an essential part of developing an enterprise information system. There are many modelling methods with software support currently available on the market. Each individual method has its own advantages and disadvantages but always has the limitation of only representing a certain view of enterprise. To describe a system clearly from different perspectives and to provide a complete understanding of the business process both to the developer and to the end-user, it is necessary to adopt more than one kind of modelling technique to establish a set of graphical models describing a system from different views.The modelling approach described in this paper is composed of three widely used modelling methods: IDEF0 to establish functional models, IDEF3 to capture process descriptions, and DFD to describe information/data flow among the activities. It is a staged approach in which different modelling method is used at different levels of granularity and details of information required. After a careful evaluation and comparison (including respective advantages and disadvantages) of the three adopted modelling methods, a guideline is proposed for using a composite of these three modelling methods to establish a set of business process models from different perspectives. The aim is to combine the advantages of each modelling method and maximise the effect of modelling work. Finally, a case study is presented in order to illustrate the effectiveness of such a modelling flamework.