Workflow-based Acquisition and Specification of Functional Requirements

The paper deals with knowledge-based business process (BP) modeling and user requirements acquisition. The peculiarity of this approach is knowledge-based modeling of the enterprise management (control) interactions. The interactions of enterprise management functions (information processing and decision making) and enterprise primary activities (product development processes) are considered from the control point of view any enterprise management function is formally predefined as Elementary Management Cycle (EMC) and presented as Workflow model (WFM). Six types of specialized WFM are defined and deployed for knowledge-based BP modeling and user requirements acquisition process. Two types of logical gaps are identified by transformations of Workflow models from empirical one to knowledge based WFM.