Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects
La Rosa, Marcello and Dumas, Marlon and ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M. and Mendling, Jan and Gottschalk, Florian (2008) Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects. In: 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2008), 20-23 October 2008, Barcelona, Spain. (In Press)
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Abstract
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.
| ID Code: | 13976 |
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| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Keywords : | process model, configuration, resource, object flow |
| Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) > Conceptual Modelling (080603) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) |
| Divisions: | QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Science and Technology |
| Copyright Owner : | Copyright 2008 Springer |
| Copyright Statement : | This is the author-version of the work. Conference proceedings published, by Springer Verlag, will be available via SpringerLink. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Deposited On: | 04 Jul 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 21 May 2009 01:51 |
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