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In order to respond quickly to changing market requirements, a business organisation needs to increase the level of agility in all phases of the business process engineering chain. Business process (BP) modelling is the first and most important phase in this chain. Designing a new and redesigning an existing process model is a highly complex, time consuming and error prone task. The research question that this work investigates is how to facilitate the design of new and redesign of existing process models by utilizing Semantic Web technologies. We present an approach for querying and reasoning on business process models which i) supports decision making, ii) facilitates reuse of modelling artefacts and iii) helps ensuring compliance of models to relevant regulations.
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Markovic, I. (2008). Advanced Querying and Reasoning on Business Process Models. In: Abramowicz, W., Fensel, D. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79396-0_17
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