An arithmetic of mapping enterprise process metrics to information model based on semantics

This paper analyzes the semantics structure of enterprise process metric and gives guidelines to describe the semantics of metric for collecting metric data automatically. Based on domain ontology, a structure called semantic tree is defined to describe the semantics relationships among measured entity, measurable attribute and constraints, which provides the same method to define semantics of process metrics and data elements in enterprise information model. The arithmetic to map process metrics to enterprise information model is put forward, which can compute the query conditions to retrieve process metrics data from enterprise information systems accurately. This arithmetic has been applied in an information project.