Building Domain Ontology from Semi-formal Modelling Language: Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)

Abstract

The development of research related to the use of domain ontology in requirement elicitation in recent years has enabled improvement on process effectiveness and efficiency. The implementation of domain ontology has enhanced requirement elicitation process in many ways, among others: in defining requirements specification and constructing test cases. However, building a domain ontology requires great effort by considering the quantity and type of input data. Our study proposes a methodology in building domain ontology by utilizing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), a popular semi-formal modeling language. Ontology classes are built by finding potential term from BPMN components and defining semantic relation among the components. This study produces two outputs: the proposed methodology in domain ontology development with BPMN as data input and the domain ontology as the implementation of the proposed methodology implementation in university’s academic process as a case study.