Dennis M Riehle

Ansätze zur Unternehmensmodellierung – Eine Einordnung

Mit dem Sinz’schen Semantischen Objektmodell lassen sich Unternehmen und betriebliche Informationssysteme ganzheitlich modellieren. Neben SOM hat die Wissenschaft in den letzten Jahrzehnten weitere Methoden und Verfahren sowie Frameworks zur Modellierung hervorgebracht. Bekannte gebrauchliche Modellierungsframeworks und -methoden sind ARIS, MEMO, icebricks und PICTURE, die – wie SOM – Eingang in die betriebliche Praxis gefunden haben. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden diese Ansatze vorgestellt und in einen Zusammenhang mit dem Semantischen Objektmodell gebracht.

Automatically Annotating Business Process Models with Ontology Concepts at Design-Time

In business process modelling, it is known that using a consistent labelling style and vocabulary improves process model quality. In this regard, several existing approaches aim at the linguistic support for labelling model elements. At the same time, domain-specific ontologies have been proposed and used to capture important process-related knowledge. However, these two areas are largely disconnected up to now. Although some research suggests annotating ontology concepts to process models, for instance, to interpret and reason about a process model, annotation has not yet gained traction in practice since it still has to be done in a highly manual effort. We thus provide an automated, language-independent methodology for using labelling assistance functionalities to identify and annotate relevant ontology concepts to process model elements using a four-step procedural model.

Designing A Framework for the Development of Domain-Specific Process Modelling Languages

Domain-specific process modelling has gained increased attention, since traditional modelling languages struggle to meet the demands of highly specialized businesses. However, methodological support on the development of such domain-specific languages is still scarce, which hampers the specification of adequate modelling support. To this end, the paper applies a design-oriented research approach to create an integrated framework that facilitates the development of domain-specific process modeling languages. The framework is a result of 23 consolidated requirements from relevant literature and contains essential building blocks that need to be considered during the development process. It is demonstrated that the framework satisfies the identified requirements by structuring and systematizing the development of domain-specific languages, which increases language adequacy and quality.