An Ontology-Based Semantic Foundation for Organizational Structure Modeling in the ARIS Method

This paper focuses on the issue of ontological interpretation for the ARIS organization modeling language with the following contributions: (i) providing real-world semantics to the primitives of the language by using the UFO foundational ontology as a semantic domain, (ii) the identification of inappropriate elements of the language, using a systematic ontology-based analysis approach, and (iii) recommendations for improvements of the language to resolve the issues identified.