25 Challenges of Semantic Process Modeling

• Mendling, Jan ^[1] ; Leopold, Henrik ^[2] ; Pittke, Fabian ^[1]
  1. [1] Vienna University of Economics and Business

     Vienna University of Economics and Business

     Innere Stadt, Austria

     
  2. [2] VU University Amsterdam

     VU University Amsterdam

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: International Journal of Information Systems and Software Engineering for Big Companies: IJISEBC, ISSN-e 2387-0184, Vol. 1, Nº. 1 (Diciembre/December), 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Situación actual y perspectivas de futuro de la Ingeniería de Software), págs. 78-94
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Process modeling has become an essential part of many organizations for documenting, analyzing and redesigning their business operations and to support them with suitable information systems. In order to serve this purpose, it is important for process models to be well grounded in formal and precise semantics. While behavioural semantics of process models are well understood, there is a considerable gap of research into the semantic aspects of their text labels and natural language descriptions. The aim of this paper is to make this research gap more transparent. To this end, we clarify the role of textual content in process models and the challenges that are associated with the interpretation, analysis, and improvement of their natural language parts. More specifically, we discuss particular use cases of semantic process modeling to identify 25 challenges. For each challenge, we identify prior research and discuss directions for addressing them.