TBIM: A Language for Modeling and Reasoning about Business Plans
Conceptual models of different aspects of an organization—business objectives, processes, rules, policies and objects—have been used for organizational design,...
Automated Reasoning for Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance is gaining attention from information systems engineers who must design systems that at the same time satisfy...
Is Traditional Conceptual Modeling Becoming Obsolete?
Traditionally, the research and practice of conceptual modeling assumed relevant information about a domain is determined in advance to...
Cognitive Mechanisms of Conceptual Modelling
Conceptual modelling involves many higher order cognitive processes, such as relational reasoning and abstraction, which are based on integration...
A Semantic Analysis of Shared References
Models, according to common understanding, facilitate to make and share references. A reference is a deictic activity whose point...
Are Conceptual Models Concept Models?
The conceptual modelling community not only has no clear, general agreement on what its models model, it also has...
Visual Modeling of Business Process Compliance Rules with the Support of Multiple Perspectives
A fundamental challenge for any process-aware information system is to ensure compliance of modeled and executed business processes with...
Deciding Data Object Relevance for Business Process Model Abstraction
Business process model abstraction received considerable attention lately. So far, business process model abstraction is mainly based on control...
Matching Business Process Models Using Positional Passage-Based Language Models
Business operations are often documented by business process models. Use cases such as system validation and process harmonization require...
Towards an Empirically Grounded Conceptual Model for Business Process Compliance
With the ever increasing number of legal requirements, ensuring business process compliance is a major challenge for today’s organizations....
