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2008-03-03: Topics have been assigned.

Learning Goal

Schedule

Instructions and Grading

You have to (1) submit an overview paper of 16-18 pages in Springer LNCS formatting and (2) give a presentation of 60 minutes (ca. 20 - 25 slides). Both the paper and the presentation must be submitted as PDF files to mheppATcomputer.org no later than April 30, 2008.

For guidance on how to write a paper, see http://www.heppnetz.de/resources/. Since the task is to write an overview paper, the necessary sections and structure can be modified as needed. Your paper should be a concise summary of the state of the art in the respective fields, and discuss open issues.

As for the presentation: Please submit your presentation either as PowerPoint or PDF (one slide per page!) and bring your own computer to the final presentation.

Resources

• SBPM 2007: Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management
• LNCS Template

Plagiarism: Make sure you give proper credit to work you are re-using! Some information is at

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

Topics and Materials

Important: The given references are ONLY first pointers to relevant literature. Use those to carry out a proper search for related literature! It is not sufficient to just take into account the explicitly listed papers. Also check

• the Web pages of authors of listed papers,
• the references in the given papers, and
• the proceedings of ESWC, ISWC, BPM, and ER conferences.

1. Ontologies for Business Processes: From TOVE to SUPER (Matthias Janetschek)
Ontologies for Organisational Aspects of Enterprises

• TOVE Ontology Project
• Hepp, M. and D. Roman (2007). An Ontology Framework for Semantic Business Process Management. 8th International Conference Wirtschaftsinformatik 2007, Karlsruhe, Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe.
• SUPER D1.1 Deliverable
• Andersson, B., M. Bergholtz, et al. (2006). Towards a Reference Ontology for Business Models. 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006) Tucson, Arizona, USA, Springer.

2. Ontological Analysis of Information Systems (Markus Posch)

• Weber, R. (1997). Ontological Foundations of Information Systems. Melbourne, Australia, Coopers & Lybrand and the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand.

3. The REA Ontology: Initial Approach and Current Efforts (Dennis Noordseij)

• McCarthy, W. E. (1982). "The REA Accounting Model: A Generalized Framework for Accounting Systems in a Shared Data Environment." The Accounting Review LVII(3): 554-578.
• Gailly, F. and G. Poels (2007). Towards Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Redesign and Formalization of the REA Ontology. 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2007), Poznan, Poland, Springer.
• Andersson, B., M. Bergholtz, et al. (2006). Towards a Reference Ontology for Business Models. 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006) Tucson, Arizona, USA, Springer.

4. Enterprise Ontology (Robert Roth)

• Dietz, J. L. G. (2006). Enterprise Ontology. Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer.
• Fox, M. S. and M. Gruninger (1997). On Ontologies and Enterprise Modelling. International Conference on Enterprise Integration Modelling Technology (ICEIMT '97), Torino, Italy, Springer.
• Uschold, M., M. King, et al. (1998). "The Enterprise Ontology." The Knowledge Engineering Review 13(1): 31-89.

5. Declarative Process Modeling (Stefan Hirschmann)

• van der Aalst, W. M. P. and M. Pesic (2006). DecSerFlow: Towards a Truly Declarative Service Flow Language. BPM Center Technical Report.

6. Process Mining (Franz Endstrasser)

• Agrawal, R., D. Gunopulos, et al. (1998). Mining process models from workflow logs. Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'98), Valencia, Spain.
• Greco, G., A. Guzzo, et al. (2005). "Mining and Reasoning on Workflows." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 17(4): 519-534.
• Jansen-Vullers, M. H., W. M. P. van der Aalst, et al. (2006). "Mining configurable enterprise information systems." Data & Knowledge Engineering (forthcoming).
• van der Aalst, W. M. P., B. F. van Dongen, et al. (2003). "Workflow mining: A survey of issues and approaches." Data & Knowledge Engineering 47: 237-267.

7. Web 2.0 Approaches in Business Process Management (Carmen Brenner)

• http://www.google.com as a starting point :-)

8. Event-Driven Process Chains (Georg Schild)

• Keller, G., M. Nüttgens, et al. (1991). Semantische Prozessmodellierung auf der Grundlage "Ereignisgesteuerter Prozessketten (EPK)". Veröffentlichung des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik. Saarbrücken.
• Mendling, J. and M. Nüttgens (2005). EPC Markup Language (EPML). Vienna, Vienna University of Economis and Business Administration.
• Scheer, A.-W. (2000). ARIS - Business Process Modeling. Berlin etc., Springer.
• Simon, C. and J. Mendling (2007). Integration of Conceptual Process Models by the Example of Event-driven Process Chains. 8th international conference Wirtschaftsinformatik 2007, Karlsruhe, Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe.

9. The Conceptual Model of ARIS (Muhammad Aleem)

• Scheer, A.-W. (2000). ARIS - Business Process Modeling. Berlin etc., Springer.

10. The e3Value Ontology (Doris Silbernagl)

• Gordijn, J. and H. Akkermans (2001). "Designing and Evaluating E-Business Models." IEEE Intelligent Systems 16(4): 11-17.
• e3value home page

11. Business Process Modeling: Complexity vs. Community Size (Elias Kärle)

• Michael zur Muehlen, Jan Recker: “How Much Language is Enough? Theoretical and Practical Use of the Business Process Modeling Notation”, 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2008), Montpellier, France, June 16-20, 2008., Springer LNCS.
• Hepp, M. (2007). "Possible Ontologies: How Reality Constrains the Development of Relevant Ontologies." IEEE Internet Computing 11(7): 90-96.

12. SAP Business by Design: Philosophy and Architecture (Peter Kirchmair)

• http://www.sap.com/solutions/sme/businessbydesign/overview/index.epx