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Overview of Selected Business Process Semantization Techniques

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Business Process models help to visualize the processes of an organization. There exist several techniques of semantization of Business Processes. We give an overview of Business Process semantization techniques, focusing on the existing approaches in several Business Process Management tools. We also present the use of the existing techniques in the Prosecco (Processes Semantics Collaboration for Companies) research project.

The chapter is supported by the AGH UST grant. It presents results from the Prosecco project funded by NCBR (The National Centre for Research and Development).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See: http://prosecco.agh.edu.pl.

  2. 2.

    The website of the SUPER project http://www.ip-super.org/content/view/196/163/ is no longer maintained. However, some pieces of information about the results can be found at: http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/results/movies/sbp-execution-developed-in-super as well as in the project publications.

  3. 3.

    See: http://dip.semanticweb.org/.

  4. 4.

    See: The patent “Semantic extensions of business process modeling tools” number US 8112257 B2: https://www.google.com/patents/US8112257.

  5. 5.

    See: http://prosecco.agh.edu.pl for the project website.

  6. 6.

    See: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/.

  7. 7.

    See: http://academic.signavio.com.

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The authors wish to thank the organizers of the ABICT 2015 workshop on the FedCSIS 2015 conference for providing an ample environment for presenting and discussing our research.

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    Krzysztof Kluza, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Mateusz Ślażyński, Krzysztof Kutt, Edyta Kucharska, Krzysztof Kaczor & Adam Łuszpaj

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Kluza, K. et al. (2017). Overview of Selected Business Process Semantization Techniques. In: Pełech-Pilichowski, T., Mach-Król, M., Olszak, C. (eds) Advances in Business ICT: New Ideas from Ongoing Research. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 658. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47208-9_4

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