Natural Language in Business Process Models

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models

scholarly journals Supporting Inter-Business Collaboration via Contract Negotiation and Enactment

2011 ◽  
pp. 487-499
Author(s):  
Peter Rittgen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Collaborative Networks ◽  
Business Network ◽  
Contract Negotiation ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Business Transactions ◽  
Workflow System ◽  
Business Collaboration

The increasing complexity of products and services encourages more and more companies to form collaborative networks. As these companies are independent organizations there often is an issue of governance. We suggest a possible architecture for such a business network that proposes a frame contract as the principal means of coordination and describes how such a contract can be designed and enacted. Often frame contracts are written in natural language which makes it difficult to govern the network effectively and efficiently. We therefore introduce a structured method that can support the design of such an agreement and ensure that its terms are observed in business transactions. We interpret governance as the management of workflows between the organizations, hence the contract consists primarily of business process models. We propose a method to negotiate these models among the member organizations of the network and to enact them with the help of an interorganizational workflow system.

scholarly journals BPM2Text: A language independent framework for Business Process Models to Natural Language Text

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael De Almeida Rodrigues ◽  
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo ◽  
Kate Cerqueira Revoredo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Natural Language Text ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Output Quality

The proper representation of a Business process is important for its execution and understanding. BPMN has been used as the standard notation for business process models, however domain specialists, which are experts in the business, do not have necessarily the modeling skills to easily read a business process model. It is easier for them to read in natural language. In this work, we propose a language-independent framework, instantiated using Java standard technology, for generating automatically natural language texts from business process models. A case study was conducted to evaluate the quality of the generated text. We found empirical support that the textual work instructions can be considered equivalent, in terms of knowledge representation, to process models represented in BPMN. Regarding the framework output quality (textual descriptions) 86% of the subjects claims that it vary from excellent to good.

scholarly journals Evaluation and Lessons Learned from a Campus as a Living Lab Program to Promote Sustainable Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1739
Author(s):  
Paul Save ◽  
Belgin Terim Cavka ◽  
Thomas Froese
Keyword(s):  
Learning Curve ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
District Energy ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
The University

Any group that creates challenging goals also requires a strategy to achieve them and a process to review and improve this strategy over time. The University of British Columbia (UBC) set ambitious campus sustainability goals, including a reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions to 33% below the 2007 level by 2015, and 100% by 2050 (UBC, 2006). The University pursued these goals through a number of specific projects (such as major district energy upgrade and a bioenergy facility) and, more generally, through a “Campus as a Living Lab” (CLL) initiative to marry industry, campus operations, and research to drive innovative solutions. The CLL program has achieved significant successes while also demonstrating many opportunities for improvements and lessons learned. The aim of this study was to examine the UBC CLL program, to identify and formalize its operations, to extract key transferable characteristics, and to propose replicable processes that other universities and municipalities can follow to expand their sustainable practices in similar ways. There was a learning curve with implementing a CLL program at UBC; thus, the goal of this study was to potentially shorten this learning curve for others. The research involved an ethnographic approach in which researchers participated in the CLL process, conducted qualitative analysis, and captured the processes through a series of business process models. The research findings are shared in two parts: 1. generalized lessons learned through key transferrable characteristics; 2. a series of generic organizational charts and business process models (BPMs) culminated with learned strategies through defined processes that illustrate what was required to create a CLL program at UBC. A generalized future improvement plan for UBC CLL programs is defined, generic BPMs about CLL projects are evaluated, and the level of engagement of multiple stakeholders through phases of project life cycle given in the conclusion for future use of other Living Lab organizations.

scholarly journals Using business process models for the specification of manufacturing operations

2020 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 103297
Author(s):  
Jonnro Erasmus ◽  
Irene Vanderfeesten ◽  
Konstantinos Traganos ◽  
Paul Grefen
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Manufacturing Operations
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