Deriving Object-Based Business Process
Architecture using Knowledge Management
Enablers
Abstract: This paper discusses a semantic-driven approach to deriving
an object-based Business Process Architecture (BPA) using Knowledge Management
Enablers (KMEs). The semantic enriched Riva BPA (srBPA) ontology has been
selected as an object and ontology based BPA to be derived by the Abstract Knowledge
Management Enablers’ Ontology (aKMEOnt). The aKMEOnt includes six KMEs: information
technology, leadership, organisation structure, culture, business repository
and knowledge context. The aKMEOnt has been utilised in order to generate the
Essential Business Entities (EBEs) of the srBPA ontology. A link between these
two artefacts, i.e., the srBPA ontology and aKMEOnt, is demonstrated using a
typical example of the deposits department in banking. In conclusion, this new ontology-based
approach between KMEs and BPA has informed the effectiveness of using semantic
KMEs and Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules in the semi-automatic
identification of representative EBEs. These EBEs characterise the business of
deposits in banking and constitute the first essential building block of the
Riva BPA method which drives the development of Units of Work and the
subsequent 1st and 2nd cut Riva process architectures.
Keywords: Business process architecture, knowledge
management enablers, srBPA, riva method.
Received October 6 2018; accepted January 22 2019