Semantic Integration of Goal and Business Process Modeling

Abstract. While business processes and business goals are considered intrinsically interdependent, a comprehensive modeling approach that includes both the business process and the goal perspectives is still lacking. This paper proposes a semantic integration between the domains of goal modeling and business process modeling. We integrate the ARIS framework with the Tropos goal modeling language. While ARIS is widely employed for business process modeling, it offers an overly simplistic set of goal-related concepts. In contrast, Tropos offers a rich set of goal-related concepts (and associated goal analysis methods), while refraining from addressing business process modeling in detail. In order to investigate the relation between the Tropos modeling constructs and the ARIS elements, we propose an ontological account for both architectural domains through the usage of the UFO ontology