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Rethinking BPM in a Cognitive World: Transforming How We Learn and Perform Business Processes Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Ontological Considerations About the Representation of Events and Endurants in Business Models

verfasst von : Giancarlo Guizzardi, Nicola Guarino, João Paulo A. Almeida

Erschienen in: Business Process Management

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Different disciplines have been established to deal with the representation of entities of different ontological natures: the business process modeling discipline focuses mostly on event-like entities, and, in contrast, the (structural) conceptual modeling discipline focuses mostly on object-like entities (known as endurants in the ontology literature). In this paper, we discuss the impact of the event vs. endurant divide for conceptual models, showing that a rich ontological account is required to bridge this divide. Accounting for the ontological differences in events and endurants as well as their relations can lead to a more comprehensive representation of business reality.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Rethinking BPM in a Cognitive World: Transforming How We Learn and Perform Business Processes
Nächstes Kapitel A Unified Approach for Measuring Precision and Generalization Based on Anti-alignments
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Metadaten
Titel
Ontological Considerations About the Representation of Events and Endurants in Business Models
verfasst von
Giancarlo Guizzardi
Nicola Guarino
João Paulo A. Almeida
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Buch
Business Process Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-45347-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-45348-4

Copyright-Jahr: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45348-4_2