A reference model for workflow application development processes

Weske, Mathias; Goesmann, Thomas; Holten, Roland; Striemer, Rüdiger

doi:10.1145/295665.295667

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“…Many researchers studied the business process model from a variety of directions; the compendium of this work provides a complete picture of the enterprise's procedures [32] [33] [63]. Other prominent approaches to business process modeling procedures are presented in [64] [65], which address the procedures to gather the requirements to build a model. Several ideas regarding the acquisition of requirements to develop a business process are mentioned in the articles [66] [67].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering: User-Centric LORS Framework

Al-Sabri¹,

Al‐Mashari²

2017

JSEA

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In recent years, the process orientation requirements engineering field has received significant interest. However, dealing with ordinary users within an enterprise for developing as-is business process is very complex because this requires skills, responsibility, knowledge, and expertise of business processes. This research answers the following questions: 1) how to systematically gather information regarding as-is business process requirements in an informal environment and by non-expert users? and 2) how can an enterprise refine the identified business process with a semantic process model? The primary purpose of this research is to develop a supporting framework that is suitable for the definition of an as-is business process to be deployed within the enterprise environment. Hence, the focus is on gathering requirements to define the as-is business process. This framework concentrates on three significant aspects of this process: development, refinement, and serialization the semantics of the process model. To accomplish this objective, the LORS framework has been proposed, which consists of four phases (List, Order, Refinement, and Serialization). The framework presents a new unique technique to identify the business process, refine the process, and generate the model semantics. This study assumes that a simple and complete framework will help non-expert users define a high-quality as-is process, such that enhance and facilitate the matching process with existing reference models. We present a case study, evaluate the case study relative to specified criteria, and research the limitations and implications discovered from our research. This research concludes that the LORS framework is simple, flexible, visible, interactive, dynamic, and effective.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several ideas regarding the acquisition of requirements to develop a business process are mentioned in the articles [66] [67]. In addition, several articles have stated that requirements engineering is appropriate to build the business process models; refer to [64] [65].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering: User-Centric LORS Framework

Al-Sabri¹,

Al‐Mashari²

2017

JSEA

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“…Workflow [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] has been used (WfMC), workflow focuses on handing business processes. It is concerned with the automation of procedures where information and tasks are passed between participants according to a defined set of rules to achieve, or contribute to, an overall business goal.…”

Section: Workflow Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Internet-Based E-Learning Workflow Process

Yong

2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. More and more people are interested in Internet-based e-learning. Internet-based e-learning has become one very important arena of modern education system. This paper is based our Internet-based e-learning teaching experience which comes from one of the leading e-learning university, the University of Southern Queensland. The Internet-based e-learning system can effectively reach the expected achievement through a well-designed workflow mechanism. The whole e-learning environment is made of four sub-workflow systems, teaching, learning, administration and technology support. Through well-designed four sub-workflow systems, all key activities are identified from these sub-workflow systems. Through improving these key activities, the whole Internet-based e-learning process has got a significant improvement. The performance of learning and teaching through this new-designed e-learning workflow system has better satisfied all aspects of learning, teaching, administration and technology support.

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“…We assume that the business processes examined in the analysis phase have been derived by process analysts, possibly by using the methods proposed in the literature (based on interviews, surveys, team discussions, and so on -see [20] for a discussion). Since an automatic transfer of business process models into workflow models proves impractical [20], an intermediate phase is needed for analysing the organisational structure and the existing technical structure of the company, i.e., existing (legacy) systems and system distribution issues. During workflow analysis, requirements are refined and structured, using the language of the developers and treating issues regarding the system activities and roles, the anomalous cases, the distribution and cooperation requirements, and the relationships with other systems.…”

Section: Workflow Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, it has been shown that an early and inappropriate WfMS selection may lead to considerable difficulties in the implementation and enactment of the workflow processes [20].…”

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WIRES: A Methodology for Developing Workflow Applications

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Workflow management systems are becoming a relevant support for a large class of business applications, and many workflow models as well as commercial products are currently available. While the large availability of tools facilitates the development and the fulfilment of customer requirements, workflow application development still requires methodological guidelines that drive the developers in the complex task of rapidly producing effective applications. In fact, it is necessary to identify and model the business processes, to design the interfaces towards existing cooperating systems, and to manage implementation aspects in an integrated way. This paper presents the WIRES methodology for developing workflow applications under a uniform modelling paradigm -UML modelling tools with some extensions -that covers all the life cycle of these applications: from conceptual analysis to implementation. High-level analysis is performed under different perspectives, including a business and an organisational perspective. Distribution, interoperability and cooperation with external information systems are considered in this early stage. A set of 'workflowability' criteria is provided in order to identify which candidate processes are suited to be implemented as workflows. Nonfunctional requirements receive particular emphasis in that they are among the most important criteria for deciding whether workflow technology can be actually useful for implementing the business process at hand. The design phase tackles aspects of concurrency and cooperation, distributed transactions and exception handling. Reuse of component workflows, available in a repository as workflow fragments, is a distinguishing feature of the method. Implementation aspects are presented in terms of rules that guide in the selection of a commercial workflow management system suitable for supporting the designed processes, coupled with guidelines for mapping the designed workflows onto the model offered by the selected system.

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A reference model for workflow application development processes

Cited by 22 publications

References 11 publications

Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering: User-Centric LORS Framework

Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering: User-Centric LORS Framework

Internet-Based E-Learning Workflow Process

WIRES: A Methodology for Developing Workflow Applications

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