Evaluation of ARIS and BPMN using the UEML approach

Résumé

Business process modelling appears as a central technique for dealing with entreprise strategy, processes development and usually predicating a need to change processes or identify issues to be corrected. Unfortunately, current process-oriented languages are not interoperable and not easily comparable with one another, nor with other modelling languages used to represent different information of an entreprise. This is a problem because the entreprise activity brings them to cooperate with each one, to exchange or to compare information. The design of the entreprise’s business processes depends on the coordinated use of several modelling languages to represent different perspectives. Our work applies a structured UEML 2.0 approach to describe two process-oriented languages: ARIS and BPMN. The main activity is to map the constructs of the languages onto an extensible ontology. We have defined the language semantics following the UEML method. The results have been validated through the UEML Validator and through a case study which result in improvement and consistency of ARIS and BPMN semantics definition. Our thesis contributes to broadening UEML 2.0 by incorporating two process-oriented languages: ARIS and BPMN. As more process-oriented languages and other modelling languages are described and integrated into UEML, it should allow UEML to support entreprise model integration, translation, transformation through the mappings onto the common ontology. It permits languages comparison and checking the required global consistency between distinct entreprise models.

la date de réponse	2007
langue originale	Anglais
Superviseur	Michael Petit (Promoteur)