Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects
(2008) Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects. In Li, Qing and Spaccapietra, Stefano and Yu, Eric, Eds. Proceedings 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2008), Barcelona, Spain.
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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.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | In Press |
| Keywords: | process model, configuration, resource, object flow |
| Subjects: | 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280100 Information Systems > 280111 Conceptual Modelling 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280100 Information Systems 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences |
| ID Code: | 13976 |
| Deposited By: | La Rosa, Marcello |
| Deposited On: | 04 July 2008 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.upc.edu/ER2008/ |
| 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 |