Re: 13 Mar. Conf Call followup: BP definition

[Keisuke HATA <hata.keisuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>]

Dear All

 I'm new to this group. 

Bob Haugen wrote:
> Nobody attempted a definition of "metamodel",
> or what level of abstraction was implied by a
> "business process metamodel".
> 0. "Thing" or "Stuff"? 8>)
> 1. "Entity" and "Relationship"?
> 2. UML diagram objects and relationships
>     e.g. "Class", "Method", "Aggregation", etc.
> 3. "Process" and "Participant" and their relationships?
> 4. "Economic Resource", "Economic Event" and
>     "Economic Agent" and their relationships?
> 5. "Procurement", "Manufacturing", "Distribution", "Retail", etc.?
> 6. "Purchase Order", "Acknowledgment", "Invoice", etc.?
> 7. "Interaction process between parties",
>     e.g. "Message, "Response", etc.?

 I have a suggestion. I think that we should separately discuss about 
process and data when we think about the business process model. 
Because the process (e.g. purchase order) is fairly general and it can
be reuse in many domains. But the data depends on the domain. It is 
difficult to reuse. Of course, the process and the data have deep 
relationship in the business process, but the character is different.

 Now, I'd like to introduce our research. We developed CSML 
(Collaboration Scenario oriented Markup Language), which is a 
description language to describe business processes based on XML. 
In CSML, we describe a business process. But we don't (can't) describe 
data. Please refer the attached paper. 

Best regards,


P.s.
 I have a question. I'd like to attend the Brussels meeting. Do I have
to 
make an application or something before go to Brussels? 
Or just go there on 8 May?

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Keisuke HATA
hata.keisuke@lab.ntt.co.jp

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