A Meta-modeling Approach to Create a Multidimensional Business Knowledge Model Based on BPMN

摘要

Business processes are everywhere. To be more efficient, organizations look for a good business process modeling. In this way, to model a business process, the are a lot of knowledge which are responsible to present a part of the process in a good level of understanding. However, the issue to be addressed in this paper is how to formalize implicit pieces of knowledge figured in the business process so as to construct a business knowledge model which will be treat in a high understanding level. This paper contributes with a meta-modeling approach that the principle is to transform a business process model to a business knowledge model. The purpose of such an approach is to provide a way to automatically build a business ontology based on easy processing of business knowledge dimensions.