A Framework for Document-Driven Workflow Systems

Wang, Jianrui; Kumar, Akhil

doi:10.1007/11538394_19

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“…The process steps follow from the availability of data objects, as production rules indicate how to produce new objects from existing objects or which operations are available based on the current data. The approaches that reside on this level are case handling [1], PBWS [24], and document-driven workflows [26].…”

Section: Data Integrationmentioning

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Evaluating data-centric process approaches: Does the human factor factor in?

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The Business Process Management field addresses design, improvement, management, support, and execution of business processes. In doing so, we argue that it focuses more on developing modeling notations and process design approaches than on the needs and preferences of the individual who is modeling (i.e., the user). New data-centric process modeling approaches are taken as a relevant and timely stream of process design approaches to test our argument. First, we provide a review of existing data-centric process approaches, culminating in a theoretical classification framework. Next, we empirically evaluate three specific approaches with regard to the claims they make. We had participants representative of actual users try out these approaches on realistic scenarios via a series of work- of claims behind the approaches, but also identify opportunities to further improve them. Most prominently, we found that the usability aspects of all considered approaches are a source of concern. This leads us to the insight that usability aspects of process design approaches are crucial and, in the perception of groups representative of actual users, leave much to be desired. In that sense, our research can be seen as a wake-up call for process modeling notation designers to consider the usability side-and as such, the interest of the human modeler-more than is currently the case.

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Section: Data Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Purely data-based approaches such as active database systems [20] allow to update data based on event-condition-action rules, but lack a genuine process perspective. Many approaches combine activity-centric process models with object life cycles, but are largely confined to 1:1 relationships between a process instance and the object instances it can handle, e.g., [9,13,22] and also BPMN [16]; some of these techniques allow flexible process execution [19]. Table 11 compares techniques that support at least a basic notion of data integration.…”

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Modeling and Enacting Complex Data Dependencies in Business Processes

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Fahland

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Detailed discussion of an algorithm to determine suitable boundaries is beyond the scope of this chapter. Further discussion of data dependencies appears in [28,30]. In summary, the general procedure for creating and running resource-driven workflows is as follows:…”

Section: Data Dependenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework for Resource-Based Workflow Management

Kumar

Wang

2014

Handbook on Business Process Management 1

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This chapter presents a general framework of resource-driven workflows as an alternative to the more popular control flow driven workflows approach. We argue that this approach is more holistic than control flow driven approaches because it considers availability of resources such as data, people, equipment, space, etc. Control flow driven approaches usually either disregard resource considerations or account for them only implicitly. In our approach the control flow is a derivative of the resource needs of various tasks. Moreover we make a clean separation between hard constraints that arise from resource considerations and soft constraints that result from business policy. The new methodology for process design is described at length, along with an architecture and a detailed discussion of implementation issues. This approach is more holistic and is particularly suited for ad hoc workflows as opposed to production workflows.

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A Framework for Document-Driven Workflow Systems

Cited by 75 publications

References 11 publications

Evaluating data-centric process approaches: Does the human factor factor in?

Evaluating data-centric process approaches: Does the human factor factor in?

Modeling and Enacting Complex Data Dependencies in Business Processes

A Framework for Resource-Based Workflow Management

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