An Approach for Extracting Business Vocabularies from  Business Process Models

Tomas Skersys; Rimantas Butleris; Kestutis Kapocius; Tomas Vileiniskis

doi:10.5755/j01.itc.42.2.2310

Authors

Tomas Skersys Kaunas University of Technology
Rimantas Butleris Kaunas University of Technology
Kestutis Kapocius Kaunas University of Technology
Tomas Vileiniskis Kaunas University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.42.2.2310

Keywords:

business vocabulary, business process diagram, SBVR, BPMN, VeTIS tool

Abstract

Being a part of business process management (BPM) life cycle, business process modeling has found its place in information systems development (ISD) practices as well. At the same time, concepts of business vocabularies and rules are also the hot topics among BPM and ISD practitioners and academics. Nevertheless, in ISD, the integration of business process models with business vocabularies and rules is still not standardized and remains quite empiric. In this paper, basic aspects of the approach for business vocabularies’ extraction from business process models are presented. The approach is based on novel business level OMG standards “Business Process Model and Notation” (BPMN) and “Semantics for Business Vocabularies and Business Rules” (SBVR), thus contributing to OMG’s vision about Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and to model-driven development in general.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.42.2.2310