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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:58, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Removal of reference on Business Process Management

You removed the following reference:

"Stojanovic, L., Maedche, A., Motik, B., & Stojanovic, N. (2002). User-driven ontology evolution management. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW. Madrid, Spain."

claiming that it did not concern itself with Business Process Management, the following is the abstract, which clearly defines it as being in the area. If you just looked at the title and deleted because of that I would caution you to check out the links for their relevancy to the statements they are referencing.

"With rising importance of knowledge interchange, many industrial and academic applications have adopted ontologies as their conceptual backbone. However, industrial and academic environments are very dynamic, thus inducing changes to application requirements. To fulfill these changes, often the underlying ontology must be evolved as well. As ontologies grow in size, the complexity of change management increases, thus requiring a wellstructured ontology evolution process. In this paper we identify a possible sixphase evolution process and focus on providing the user with capabilities to control and customize it. We introduce the concept of an evolution strategy encapsulating policy for evolution with respect to user’s requirements."

It clearly references the process of keeping requirements relvant to processes, including business processes.

Ans e ll Review my progress! 09:42, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adoble replies. I removed the reference as it did not have a direct relevance to the BPM topic. Evolution of an ontology may have an influence (e.g. changing the structure of the messages which flow between activities), but it is not a direct influence. I would be happier to see references to papers which address one of the core problems of BPM, i.e. how to evolve a business processes while it is still running.