The choice of BPMN notation to design business process does
not tie to a particular machine-readable format because, although there are big efforts
in this direction, there is not a standard machine-readable format to represent
business processes. Starting from these problems in our research work, our idea
(Figure 4) is to add an ontology layer. The choice of ontology (in our approach we
adopt Semantic Web technologies different from the Semantic Web idea) helps us
to provide, immediately, a process representation in a machine-readable format
and, thanks to its flexibility, ontology will help, when necessary, to translate in any
formal language the model obtained when this formal language will be defined and
will be standard.
Figure 4. The ontology layer
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Our.Approach. to. Solve.MOF.Problems
In order to solve the MOF problems highlighted, we look to other languages different
from MOF.
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