Representational Analysis of Business Process and Business Rule Languages

We conducted a representational analysis of a set of business process and business rule modeling languages by using the well-known Bunge-WandWeber (BWW) representation model. Our paper comparatively assesses their ontological deficiencies and explores different possibilities of combining process modeling languages with rule modeling languages in order to achieve the highest ontological completeness. We demonstrate that a combination of BPMN and R2ML (rBPMN) offers the highest ontological completeness among the languages studied.

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