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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.
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Riehle, D.M., Jannaber, S., Delfmann, P., Thomas, O., Becker, J. (2017). Automatically Annotating Business Process Models with Ontology Concepts at Design-Time. In: de Cesare, S., Frank, U. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10651. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70625-2_17
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