Ontological Considerations About the Representation of Events and Endurants in Business Models

Different disciplines have been established to deal with the representation of entities of different ontological natures: the business process modeling discipline focuses mostly on event-like entities, and, in contrast, the (structural) conceptual modeling discipline focuses mostly on object-like entities (known as endurants in the ontology literature). In this paper, we discuss the impact of the event vs. endurant divide for conceptual models, showing that a rich ontological account is required to bridge this divide. Accounting for the ontological differences in events and endurants as well as their relations can lead to a more comprehensive representation of business reality.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Guizzardi, Giancarlo
Guarino, Nicola
Almeida, Joao Paulo A.
Source: 
Business Process Management. 14th International Conference (BPM 2016), pp. 20–36, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18-22/9/2016
Date: 
2016
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/366486
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45348-4_2
info:doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45348-4_2
urn:isbn:978-3-319-45347-7
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Nicola Guarino
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