A Lightweight Formalism for the Integration of BPMN Models with Domain Ontologies

The widespread use of BPMN to describe business processes is highlighting the need to integrate the description of the operational flow with domain specific information. In most cases the domain knowledge is already represented in domain ontologies or can be derived from the existing documentation. To preserve the simplicity of the original BPMN model specifications our approach is to integrate the semantic and BPMN information through a separate view that can be semiautomatically built relying on the capabilities of the SyBeL modeling language. This unified view can be used to produce different artifacts to support the implementation phases of th