The process description
must be machine readable.
In our research work we consider these two aspects by two approaches:
A Des gn Tool for Bus ness Process Des gn and Representat on
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??? the use of a standard notation for business process representation, and
??? the use of an ontological language that, thanks to its flexibility and machinereadable
feature, is able to express all process complexity in a formal way.
In the next section of this chapter we explain the background about the concept
of business process management (BPM) and the analysis of several BPM suites,
and then we explain the open issue and the possible solutions related to the BPM
suites. Next, we present our approach to the business process representation and
we provide an overview about business process management notation (BPMN),
Semantic Web languages, and about the concept of the metamodel. In the next
section we explain what metamodel means and what the main problems are in the
meta object facility (MOF) approach.
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