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Using a Controlled Vocabulary to Support Business Process Design

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Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2011)

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Rapid business change demands the ability to adapt, rearrange and reinvent business processes while keeping the alignment with supporting information systems. However, such tasks require a business process to be consistently specified and modelled. To address this issue, this paper describes an organizational taxonomy that defines a controlled vocabulary to design business processes using the concepts of information entity, business process, organizational unit, actor, business schedule and business goal.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Artur Caetano & Pedro Sousa

  2. Link, Av. Duque de Ávila, 23, 1000-138, Lisboa, Portugal

    Carla Marques Pereira & Pedro Sousa

  3. Centre for Organizational Design and Engineering, INESC, Rua Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Carla Marques Pereira & Artur Caetano

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  1. Faculty of Technology,, Delft University of Technology, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands

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  2. Business School, Brunel University, UB8 3PH, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK

    Tillal Eldabi

  3. School of Business, Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN 56563, Moorhead, USA

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Marques Pereira, C., Caetano, A., Sousa, P. (2011). Using a Controlled Vocabulary to Support Business Process Design. In: Barjis, J., Eldabi, T., Gupta, A. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24175-8_6

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