Open AccessDomain-specific Modelling of Business Processes
Author(s) -
Zdeněk Meliš,
Jaroslav Žáček,
František Huňka
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2309-0685
DOI - 10.46300/9103.2021.9.14
Subject(s) - ontology , computer science , business domain , business process modeling , process ontology , ontology based data integration , business process , domain (mathematical analysis) , upper ontology , software engineering , process modeling , artifact centric business process model , abstraction , suggested upper merged ontology , business rule , business process model and notation , process (computing) , data science , domain knowledge , programming language , work in process , engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , operations management , epistemology
The paper deals with the value modelling of business processes using the REA ontology. This ontology, which has its roots in accounting systems, provides a comprehensive framework to business process modelling. The REA ontology is focused on modelling values of resources of business processes. A business process model, which uses this ontology, introduces two levels of abstraction - the operational level and the policy level. That fact allows a greater range of possibilities of usage compared to standard modelling methods. The paper describes the use of domain-specific modelling to create a modelling tool based on the REA ontology. This approach allows creating a tool that uses specific properties of the ontology to ensure validation of the model and automatic source code generation.