业务流程建模:词汇问题和需求规范

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on The Design of Communication CD-ROM Pub Date : 2014-09-27 DOI:10.1145/2666216.2666217

J. Gassen, J. Mendling, L. Thom, J. Oliveira

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流程模型由图形元素和单词组成。然而，在工艺设计期间用于命名元素的单词具有潜在的模糊含义，这可能导致质量问题。我们相信本体可以作为解决这个问题的一种手段。本文讨论了与用于在标签中表示概念的单词相关的方面，以及为什么本体可以改进这种表示。此外，我们还分析了需求规范如何影响建模过程中使用的术语。关于本体的讨论是概念性的。我们进行了一项实验，对过程模型背景下的词汇问题进行了实证分析。在实验中，评估了需求规范中以不同显式水平表示的术语的选择。我们的研究结果表明，词汇问题发生在过程模型中。此外，不同程度的显式影响标签，但不足以解决词汇问题。

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Business process modeling: Vocabulary problem and requirements specification

Process models are composed of graphical elements and words. However, words used to name elements during process design have potentially ambiguous meanings, which might result in quality problems. We believe that ontologies might serve as a means to address this problem. This paper discusses aspects related to words used to represent concepts in labels and why ontologies can improve this representation. Also, we analyze how the requirements specifications can influence the terms used during modeling. The discussion regarding ontologies is conceptual. We performed an experiment to analyze empirically the vocabulary problem in the context of process models. In the experiment the selection of terms represented with different levels of explicitness in requirements specifications is evaluated. Our findings suggest that the vocabulary problem occurs in process models. Also, different levels of explicitness affect the labels but are not sufficient to solve the vocabulary problem.

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