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Successful business process design requires active participation of users who are familiar with organizational activities and business process modelling concepts. Hence, there is a need to provide users with reusable, flexible, agile and adaptable training material in order to enable them instil their knowledge and expertise in business process design and automation activities. Knowledge reusability is of paramount importance in designing training material on process modelling since it enables users participate actively in process design/redesign activities stimulated by the changing business environment. This paper presents a prototype approach for the design and use of training material that provides significant advantages to both the designer (knowledge - content reusability and semantic web enabling) and the user (semantic search, knowledge navigation and knowledge dissemination). The approach is based on externalizing domain knowledge in the form of ontology-based knowledge networks (i.e. training scenarios serving specific training needs) so that it is made reusable.
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Macris, A., Malamateniou, F., Vassilacopoulos, G. (2010). Enhancing Users’ Participation in Business Process Modeling through Ontology-Based Training. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_29
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