Stoic Conceptual Modeling Applied to Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
Sabah Al-Fedaghi

TL;DR
This paper introduces Stoic Conceptual Modeling (SCM) as a minimal ambiguity ontological framework and applies it to analyze and improve the conceptual foundation of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
Contribution
It proposes SCM based on Stoic philosophy for clearer system descriptions and demonstrates its application to BPMN to enhance ontological accuracy.
Findings
SCM offers a tighter, more precise representation of reality.
Application to BPMN clarifies core concepts like activity, task, and message.
Provides a foundation for improved software system requirements.
Abstract
Basic abstraction principles are reached through ontology, which was traditionally conceived as a depiction of the world itself. Ontology is also described using conceptual modeling (CM) that defines fundamental concepts of reality. CM is one of the central activities in computer science, especially as it is mainly used in software engineering as an intermediate artifact for system construction. To achieve such a goal, we propose Stoic CM (SCM) as a description of what a system must do functionally with minimal ambiguity. As a case study, we apply SCM to investigate the ontology of BPMN (business process modeling notation). Such an undertaking would demonstrate SCM notions and simultaneously may offer a viable ontological foundation for BPMN. SCM defines the being of things and actions in reality based on Stoic notions of existence and subsistence. It has two levels of specification:…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBusiness Process Modeling and Analysis · Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services · Semantic Web and Ontologies
