Processes

Business processes and control flow (e.g. ATM withdrawal)

Processes in ontologies

Static class diagrams omit control flow: which step follows which, which events enable withdrawals or approvals, and how exceptions branch. The canonical processes section walks through an ATM cash withdrawal: object properties connect process steps, participants, and resources so that business behaviour becomes queryable knowledge alongside structural triples.

Philosophical and ontological takes on processes appear in [GuGu2024]; RDF-oriented modelling in [AlHe2020].

Object properties as control edges

Transitions between states or tasks are expressed with OPs (and sometimes relators) so that paths through the process graph mirror allowed executions—complementary to rules that fire when conditions hold.

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Multi-step sessions and rule agendas can mirror process structure; keep step identifiers stable across documentation and executable logic.

Source: taoke.de — Processes.

References

  1. [AlHe2020] Dean Allemang, Jim Hendler, Fabien Gandon, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist - Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, Third Edition, ACM Books series, Nbr. 33 , 2020, ISBN: 978-1-4503-7614-3
  2. [GuGu2024] Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Processes as variable embodiments, Synthese 203:104 , 2024, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04505-2