Ontology-Based Process Modelling -- Will we live to see it?
  In theory, ontology-based process modelling (OBPM) bares great potential to
extend business process management. Many works have studied OBPM and are clear
on the potential amenities, such as eliminating ambiguities or enabling
advanced reasoning over company processes. However, despite this approval in
academia, a widespread industry adoption is still nowhere to be seen. This can
be mainly attributed to the fact, that it still requires high amounts of manual
labour to initially create ontologies and annotations to process models. As
long as these problems are not addressed, implementing OBPM seems unfeasible in
practice. In this work, we therefore identify requirements needed for a
successful implementation of OBPM and assess the current state of research
w.r.t. these requirements. Our results indicate that the research progress for
means to facilitate OBPM are still alarmingly low and there needs to be urgent
work on extending existing approaches.
