From a Cloudy View Towards a More Structured Approach for Business Process Related Concepts

Necmettin Ozkan

2015

Abstract

In today’s information era, one of the greatest areas of confusion is the terminology used to name abstract business process concepts which are mostly unclear, blurred and ambiguous among people. This study attempts to remedy the problem of the often-occurring issue of terminology confusion in business process domain. Following a nested approach, from mission to event, the work firstly defines essential terms used in the area of research in order to create a common understanding. The paper then formalizes the relations between the terms represented within a consolidated class diagram. Therefore, the study aims to contribute the body of knowledge in this area especially for people from practice by consolidating all relevant terms and providing a meta-model from a consistent point of view.

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Ozkan N. (2015). From a Cloudy View Towards a More Structured Approach for Business Process Related Concepts . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: RDBPM, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-158-8, pages 315-324. DOI: 10.5220/0005645403150324


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@conference{rdbpm15,
author={Necmettin Ozkan},
title={From a Cloudy View Towards a More Structured Approach for Business Process Related Concepts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: RDBPM, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={315-324},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005645403150324},
isbn={978-989-758-158-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: RDBPM, (IC3K 2015)
TI - From a Cloudy View Towards a More Structured Approach for Business Process Related Concepts
SN - 978-989-758-158-8
AU - Ozkan N.
PY - 2015
SP - 315
EP - 324
DO - 10.5220/0005645403150324