Re: 13 Mar. Conf Call followup: BP definition

["Paul R. Levine" <plevine@telcordia.com>]

Dear Hata,

Thank you for your interest in ebXML.  You are welcome to attend the Brussels
meeting.  See the Criteria for Membership from the ebXML Terms of Reference.
Also, as we discussed in our conference call this week, a person is considered
to be a member if they actively participate on conference calls and/or
participate in ebXML face-to-face meetings.

Regards,

Paul Levine

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Keisuke HATA <hata.keisuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> on 03/14/2000 04:15:04 AM

To:   Bob Haugen <linkage@interaccess.com>, "'ebxml-bp@lists.oasis-open.org'"
      <ebxml-bp@lists.oasis-open.org>
cc:    (bcc: Paul R. Levine/Telcordia)
Subject:  Re: 13 Mar. Conf Call followup: BP definition




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
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