Using ontologies in virtual brainstorming for business process reengineering

The paper motivates an ontology-based conceptual infrastructure for automating the virtual brainstorming in order to support the incremental and continuous Business Process Reengineering (BPR). It also motivates the need for an upper-level ontology with linguistic features for representing ideas on both objects and processes, and, also, the communication acts (i.e. for the integration of three ontologies: BPR, domain and communication ontologies). The main elements of the simple, compound and complex sentences in this upper-level ontology are also outlined and exemplified for BPR.