¹School of Business and Informatics, University College of Borås, Borås, Sweden

Correspondence: Peter Rittgen, School of Business and Informatics, University College of Borås, Allégatan 1, Borås 501 90, Sweden. Tel: +46 33 435 59 30; Fax: +46 33 435 40 07; E-mail: peter.rittgen@hb.se

Received 11 May 2005; Revised 17 December 2005; Accepted 3 January 2006.

Abstract

Two important views in the development of information systems are the action view and the reaction view which govern the areas of business process modelling and information systems modelling, respectively. We suggest an approach to mediate between these partially conflicting views by specifying a language-mapping framework. In other words, we specify a transition from a process model with human actors to an IS model with inanimate agents.