**2.3 Business process modeling -linguistic approach—application programs**

efficiently without running adequate business process (BP) as well, while their structure and functionality plays a role of principle importance. The BP structure represents BP static aspects, however the BP functionality is closely related to BP dynamics and performance, the result of which are being compared with KPI indicators established within evaluation of the or company business strategy. As a result of that, we have to know the BP structure and functionality, where business process modeling and BP modeling tools seem to be very significant important matter. However, there exist many different approaches BP modeling, incl./ methods and techniques as well, while the ARIS methodology designed by prof. Scheer [2, 4] seems to be the standard applied round the globe. On the other hand, many other approaches and methodologies related o business process modeling exist, while one of the is denoted as business process linguistic modeling (BPLM) based on existence of so called linguistic sets, which create basis for BP static aspects quantifying, while they create basis of Principle Businesses Process Linguistic Modeling Equation (PBPL Equation), which enables quantifying BP functionality

*Business Process Linguistic Modeling: Theory and Practice Part II: BPLM Business Process…*

aspects. We shall discuss those principles within, next subsections.

However, the ARIS methodology creates basis for BPLM approach as well, while there are defined BP model four views: (a) functional view, (b) process view, (c) data view and (d) organizational view as well, we shall apply and modify them as follows: (a) functional view, (b) process view, (c) information support view, (d) knowledge-based view and (e) organization support view and all those views will be respected, when creating the BPLM Designer, which creates an integral part of the entire business process linguistic modeling system (BLM System). On one hand, the BPLM Designer seems to a subsystem closely related to the BPLM System, while it consist of the following components: (a) BPLM Process Analysis and Design, (b) BPLM Process simulation and (c) BPLM Optimization component, while the BP Architecture model seems to be the main result of BPLM Designer functionality.

Business process model functional view represents a functionality of core, main, subordinated, and elementary business processes implemented and operated within actual firm or company and indicates appropriate relations among them, however that view does not indicate any BP outposts and BP inputs. The adequate BPs are being quantified via appropriate linguistic sets and relations among the is quantified via PBPL Equation with respect o Consideration no 1

The ARIS methodology describes the BP model process view as a sequence of business process functions (BPFs), which the actual business process consists of and does not consider about BPF structure and functionality. In general, any BPF provides conversion (transformation) of BP inputs to BP pre-defined outputs and consist of: (a) transformation rules, (b) transformation tools and BP internal metrics items, while the BP internal metrics items and values are closely related to BP transformation tools as well and they are quantified via appropriate linguistic subsets, which create an integral part of the actual BPF linguistic set {[BPF (i, j)]},

*4.1.2 Business process model views*

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*4.1.3 Business process model functional view*

*4.1.4 Business process model process view*

while formula (1) might be postulated.

(see also Section 4.2.1).

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Business Process Management (BPM) has been receiving increasing attention in recent years. Many organizations have been adapting their business to a processcentered view since they started noticing its potential to reduce costs, improve productivity and achieve higher levels of quality. However, implementing BPM in organizations requires time, making the automation of process identification and discovery highly desirable. To achieve this expectation, the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and tools has emerged to generate process models from unstructured text. However, no BPLM functional application programs were found, which would be similar to system ARIS or Bizagi application programs and which could be tested for practical purposes.

There are techniques applied to the BPM life-cycle phases of process identification, process discovery and process analysis as well as tools to support process discovery. The results of the present study may be valuable to support research in extraction of business process models from natural language text [6, 7, 24, 25, 30].
