Automatic business process model assembly on the basis of subject-oriented semantic process mark-up

Abstract

Business processes of large companies often lack the flexibility of their smaller competitors. This fact results in slower reaction to the changes in business environment which usually require to launch complicated IT projects. Nevertheless many tasks faced in these situations by IT departments have standard solutions which could be expressed in form of semi-formalized best practices and recommendations. Authors propose a business process model enriched by the semantic mark-up that enables to represent these recommendations in form of fully formalized high-level process descriptions. Using the proposed technical approaches concrete business process models can be generated from these descriptions. Authors discuss formal methods of searching the relevant high-level descriptions as well as rating and evaluation of the generated concrete models based on different criteria.