MBCO: The Materials-Based Business Case Ontology from BPMN-EMMO Integration

Authors

Feltus C., Klein P., Konchakova N., Nicolas D., Kavka C., Horsch M.T., Preisig H.A., Khadraoui D., Belouettar S.

Reference

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 504 LNBIP, pp. 23-45, 2024

Description

Open innovation in materials research involves the collaborative sharing of knowledge, ideas, and resources across organisations. Unfortunately, a lack of mutual understanding between scientific and industrial partners and their respective domain-specific digital tools hampers collaboration across the two domains. For this purpose, this work integrates the Business Process Modelling and Notation standard BPMN and the Elementary Multi-perspective Material Ontology (EMMO), yielding a knowledge representation and data documentation standard for research problems, workflows, and results related to the development of new materials and technologies and the underlying challenges in materials science. As a methodology, this work proposes and implements an innovative four-step approach for ontology integration, comprising alignment, mapping, integration, and validation. The result of this integration is pioneering an original Materials-based Business Case Ontology (MBCO), by which BPMN can be deployed an EMMO-compliant way.

Link

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-61657-0_2