The formalisation of essential business knowledge using UML

Abstract

The most important priority in our knowledge driven society is the identification of improvement areas and utilization of information and communication technologies. Business knowledge is considerable resource of business competition advantage. The organisations have huge amount of data and using them with the connecting of people factor (knowledge and skill) is a big challenge for all business skateholders. Mainly my diagrams brings to this area an orderliness and recommended structure.The article deals with several UML class diagrams, which are used for business concepts modeling, especially for business resources, business events and business rules modeling. These concepts are the business concepts in which may be the knowledge stored in particular. The diagrams simplify the knowledge artefacts, clarify the knowledge content and formalize knowledge structure. It is presented some views at business concepts, business actors and their role, business events and contracts and business document and its distribution in structured form, which is graphical and understandable for everybody in business.

Keywords

• business knowledge
• business resource
• rule
• event
• business modeling
• class diagram