Mohamed Turki

Towards Extending Business Process Modeling Formalisms with Information and Knowledge Dimensions.

Sensitive Business Processes (SBPs) modeling has become an effective way of managing and developing organization’s knowledge which needs to be capitalized. These processes are characterized by a high complexity and dynamism in their execution, high number of critical activities with intensive acquisition, sharing, storage and (re)use of very specific crucial knowledge, diversity of knowledge sources, and high degree of collaboration among experts. Hence, we propose a semantically rich conceptualization for describing an SBP organized in a generic Business Process Meta-model for Knowledge Identification (BPM4KI), in order to develop a rich and expressive representation of SBPs to identify and localize the crucial knowledge. BPM4KI covers all aspects of business process modeling: the functional, organizational, behavioral, informational, intentional and knowledge perspectives. This paper aims to introduce a more explicit border between information and knowledge concepts and dimensions which are relevant in SBP models, based on «core» domain ontologies.

A Proposal to Model Knowledge Dimension in Sensitive Business Processes

Knowledge development in organizations relies on Sensitive Business Processes (SBPs), which are characterized by a high complexity and dynamism in their execution, high number of critical activities with intensive acquisition, sharing, storage and (re)use of very specific crucial knowledge, diversity of knowledge sources, and high degree of collaboration among experts. In this paper, we propose a semantically rich conceptualization for describing a SBP organized in a new Business Process Meta-model for Knowledge Identification (BPM4KI), in order to develop a rich and expressive graphical representation of SBPs to identify and localize the crucial knowledge. BPM4KI covers all aspects of business process modeling: the functional, organizational, behavioral, informational, intentional and knowledge perspectives. We focus more specifically on Knowledge Perspective which has not yet evolved into BP models. This perspective is semantically rich and well founded is on the «core» domain ontologies. Besides, we evaluate the relevance of some proposed concepts through a real SBP scenario from medical domain in the context of the organization of protection of the motor disabled people of Sfax-Tunisia.

Modeling Dynamic Aspects of Sensitive Business Processes for Knowledge Localization

Abstract This paper introduces BPM4KI- a generic Business Process Meta-Model for Knowledge Identification, which encompasses a clear and semantically rich definition of Sensitive Business Processes (SBPs). This meta-model is well founded on «core» domain ontologies. It covers all aspects of business process modeling and knowledge management: the functional, organizational, behavioral, informational, intentional and knowledge perspectives. The aim of BPM4KI is to develop a rich and expressive graphical representation of SBPs in order to identify and localize the crucial knowledge that is mobilized and created by these processes. In this research work, we focus more specifically on the description of the « Functional Perspective», which represents the core dimension in SBP modeling, exploring the collaboration, interaction and knowledge aspects. Besides, we evaluate the relevance of some proposed concepts through a real SBP scenario from medical domain in the context of the organization of protection of the motor disabled people of Sfax-Tunisia (ASHMS).

Sensitive Business Processes Representation: A Multi-dimensional Comparative Analysis of Business Process Modeling Formalisms

This paper presents a multi-perspective evaluation framework for assessing the expressiveness of current widely used business process modeling formalisms, in order to select the most suitable for representing sensitive business processes (SBPs) to improve the identification of crucial knowledge that is mobilized by these processes. Aiming at SBPs, a specific framework that helped previously to build a business process meta-model for knowledge identification is applied in a systematic manner in order to evaluate a number of currently available BPM formalisms under six perspectives, namely functional, organizational, behavioral, informational, intentional and knowledge perspectives. Furthermore, the result of the evaluation led us to justify the choice of the better one positioned nowadays, the standard BPMN 2.0. Besides, we have illustrated the practical applicability of this notation on a medical process in the context of the organization of protection of the motor disabled people of Sfax-Tunisia.

Sensitive Business Process Modeling for Knowledge Management

Currently, modern organizations are characterized by collaborative, highly dynamic, complex and highly intensive knowledge processes. They are all the more aware of the need to effectively identify, preserve, share and use the knowledge mobilized by their business processes. Thus, in order to improve their performance, business process modeling has become a primary concern for any organization in order to improve the management of its individual and collective knowledge assets. This paper proposes a new meta-model of sensitive business processes modeling for knowledge management, called BPM4KI (Business Process Meta-Model for Knowledge Identification) based on COOP, a core ontology of organization’s processes. The aim of this meta-model is to help identify and localize the crucial knowledge that is mobilized and created by these processes. Moreover, it has been illustrated through applying it to a medical process in the context of the organization of protection of the motor disabled people of Sfax-Tunisia (ASHMS).

A Business Process Meta-Model for Knowledge Identification Based on a Core Ontology

Business process modeling (BPM) has become primary concern for any successful organization to improve the management of their individual and collective crucial knowledge. In this paper, we propose a new multi-perspective meta-model of business processes modeling for knowledge management (KM), called BPM4KI (Business Process Meta-Model for Knowledge Identification). This meta-model is semantically rich and well founded on COOP, a core ontology of organization’s processes. It covers all aspects of BPM and KM: the functional, organizational, behavioral, informational, intentional and knowledge perspectives. The aim of BPM4KI is to develop a rich and expressive graphical representation of BPs, especially, the sensitive business processes (SBPs) in order to identify and localize the crucial knowledge that is mobilized and created by these processes. Besides, it is evaluated through a real SBP scenario from medical domain in the context of the organization of protection of the motor disabled people of Sfax-Tunisia (ASHMS).

Using core ontologies for extending sensitive business process modeling with the knowledge perspective

This research article presents an extension of the most suitable business process modeling formalism BPMN 2.0 for including and implementing the knowledge dimension in Sensitive Business Processes (SBPs). This extension is semantically rich and well-based on core domain ontologies. We aim at enriching the graphical representation of SBPs in order to improve the localization and the identification of crucial knowledge mobilized and created by these processes. Besides, we evaluate the relevance of the evolved extension through a real medical SBP scenario.

A BPMN Extension for Integrating Knowledge Dimension in Sensitive Business Process Models

While importance of knowledge dimension is well recognized, there is no clear theoretical background and successful practical experiments of inclusion and integration of this dimension in BP meta-models and BPM formalisms. This paper proposes to extend the well-known Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 2.0) with the knowledge dimension so that using a common modeling formalism it would be possible to relate the various types of knowledge, information and data to the business process model. This extension, called «BPMN4KM», is designed methodically by application of the extension mechanisms of BPMN 2.0. We aim at incorporating relevant issues at the intersection of knowledge management (KM) and business process modeling (BPM) in order to enrich the graphical representation of sensitive Business processes (SBPs) and improve the localization and identification of crucial knowledge mobilized and created by these processes. Besides, we evaluate the relevance of BPMN4KM concepts through a real SBP scenario from medical domain.

K4BPMN Modeler: An Extension of BPMN2 Modeler with the Knowledge Dimension Based on Core Ontologies.

In this paper, we aim at enriching the graphical representation of sensitive business processes (SBPs) in order to identify and localize the crucial knowledge mobilized and created by these processes. Therefore, we develop a specific Eclipse plug-in, called «K4BPMN Modeler: Knowledge for Business Process Modeling Notation Modeler», implementing and supporting the BPMN extension «BPMN4KM». This extension was designed in a previous research project based on core ontologies in order to integrate all relevant aspects related to the knowledge dimension in sensitive business process models. Besides, we illustrated the application of some extended concepts on a model of medical care process.

Towards a knowledge cartography approach

We propose in this paper a new approach for knowledge cartography which aims to visualize knowledge of the organization among a clear representation. On the one hand, knowledge cartography approach identifies knowledge and evaluates it on the other hand. Moreover, it aims to visualize this knowledge through an understandable graphical representation. This approach has been tested in the organization of protection of motor-disabled of Sfax-Tunisia (ASHMS).