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Figure 3. Dietz ontological process model of volley

Figure 4. Dietz volley case action

the right amount of (re)design and (re)en-
gineering freedom;

ontological models to assert the existence of all
the transaction components.
However Dietz, as opposed to using con-
ventional and well established representation
languages, like BMPN, choose to lay down a new
form for representing some of his diagrams. In
fact he could have used BPMN to draw the entire
representations.
The following chapter describes the Air Force
Mission Request Process in a textual manner and
analyses the same process according to Dietz
transaction and ontological models and, while veri-

• Is composed by a set of four aspect mod-

els that are coherent based on a theoretical
foundation;

The independence of the ontological models
from implementation and the usefulness of the
ontological facts are valuable factors in analyzing
business processes. The next chapter presents the
Portuguese Air Force Mission Request Process
and uses Dietz Transaction Pattern and the four