Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects

, , , , & Gottschalk, Florian (2008) Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects. In Li, Q, Yu, E, Olive, A, & Spaccapietra, S (Eds.) Conceptual Modeling: 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2008, Proceedings [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 5231]. Springer, Germany, pp. 199-215.

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A configurable process model is an integrated representation of multiple variants of a business process. It is designed to be individualized to meet a particular set of requirements. As such, configurable process models promote systematic reuse of proven or common practices. Existing notations for configurable process modeling focus on capturing tasks and control-flow dependencies, neglecting equally important aspects of business processes such as data flow, material flow and resource management. This paper fills this gap by proposing an integrated meta-model for configurable processes with advanced features for capturing resources involved in the performance of tasks (through task-role associations) as well as flow of data and physical artifacts (through task-object associations). Although embodied as an extension of a popular process modeling notation, namely EPC, the meta-model is defined in an abstract and formal manner to make it applicable to other notations.

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ID Code: 13976
Item Type: Chapter in Book, Report or Conference volume (Conference contribution)
ORCID iD:
La Rosa, Marcelloorcid.org/0000-0001-9568-4035
ter Hofstede, Arthurorcid.org/0000-0002-2730-0201
Measurements or Duration: 17 pages
Event Title: International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Event Dates: 2008-10-20 - 2008-10-23
Event Location: UNSPECIFIED
Keywords: Configuration, Object flow, Process Model, Resource
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87877-3_16
ISBN: 978-3-540-87876-6
Pure ID: 33563451
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