The IWi process model corpus

In spite of the current research activities developing methods and techniques for business process model analysis, an adequate and homogeneous data basis is still missing. Referring to other research disciplines like computer linguistics or biology, a comprehensive, standardized and digitally available data corpus may lead to a better and con-sistent understanding of businesses in different domains as well as of the corresponding business information systems. Especially in the context of business process management, such a corpus is of high importance as it improves the creation of particular business process landscapes and the development of standardized evaluations. Against that background, this article presents the IWi Process Model Corpus extending the Reference Model Catalogue, which was developed by the IWi in 2006, with processable process model data. Thereby, its characteristics as well as correspondences between the contained sub corpora and between different single models are focused. In the current version, the corpus contains reference models, models from practice and models from controlled modelling environments and, in total, comprises 24 model collections with 4,426 process models and mappings for more than 137,000 model pairs

The IWi process model corpus

In spite of the current research activities developing methods and techniques for business process model analysis, an adequate and homogeneous data basis is still missing. Referring to other research disciplines like computer linguistics or biology, a comprehensive, standardized and digitally available data corpus may lead to a better and con-sistent understanding of businesses in different domains as well as of the corresponding business information systems. Especially in the context of business process management, such a corpus is of high importance as it improves the creation of particular business process landscapes and the development of standardized evaluations. Against that background, this article presents the IWi Process Model Corpus extending the Reference Model Catalogue, which was developed by the IWi in 2006, with processable process model data. Thereby, its characteristics as well as correspondences between the contained sub corpora and between different single models are focused. In the current version, the corpus contains reference models, models from practice and models from controlled modelling environments and, in total, comprises 24 model collections with 4,426 process models and mappings for more than 137,000 model pairs

Open Models as a Foundation of Future Enterprise Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 12131)

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 12131 ``Open Models as a Foundation of Future Enterprise Systems\u27\u27. Research on open models introduces a new model of collaboration among researchers, developers, and prospective users of reference enterprise models-leading to the prospect of shaping future enterprise systems. This seminar brought together researchers and practitioners with expertise in a broad range of fields including conceptual modelling, model-driven engineering, enterprise systems, software architectures, and modelling tool development. The seminar mixed short presentations on the attendees\u27 perspectives on open models with keynote presentations and working groups on selected research issues. Topics discussed include the shape of future enterprise systems amalgamated with open reference enterprise models, business domains to be addressed in first open models, requirements towards a technical infrastructure as well as organisational issues of open model initiatives. The seminar\u27s discussions benefitted from the different perspectives of attendees on the common topic, raised important new questions on open models, and brought to light overlooked aspects important to future research activities