Approaches to modeling business processes: a critical analysis of BPMN, workflow patterns and YAWL

Börger, Egon

doi:10.1007/s10270-011-0214-z

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“…During the automated merge of BP models, there is the risk of undesirable constructs to be generated; the so-called anomalies [5]. These anomalies may be in form of anti-patterns e.g., deadlock constructs [34], or ambiguous patterns e.g., OR-join constructs [35]. During the merge process, continuous validation checking is therefore necessary to avoid generation of ambiguous patterns.…”

Section: Stages In Bp Consolidation: Results From Slrmentioning

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“…The ambiguous patterns are those workflow patterns [42] which includes OR-join and complex-join (e.g., General Synchronizing Merge, Blocking Partial Join, and Structured Discriminator) and face problems during execution with BP management systems. A discussion on ambiguity and inconsistency with workflow engines could be found in [5, 35,42]. To identify ambiguous workflow patterns, we apply our own developed tool, named Disambiguation Decision System (DSS).…”

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“…For instance, the construction company could use either its internal store, or rent an external store, or could use both internal and external stores in a project. Although OR gateway was quite practical in developing consolidated BPs, some OR included fragments (e.g., OR-join) in the consolidated BP models faced difficulties in execution, due to their ambiguous semantics [35,42]. Manually identifying and removing the problematic OR-join fragments was also a difficult job for VO representatives.…”

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Various forms of partnerships have increasingly emerged among organizations, in both the manufacturing and service industry. In one type of structured partnership, called the Virtual Organization (VO), the member organizations share with each other a part of their capacities and capabilities, so that together they can seize a bigger market share and more opportunities. However, to excel the VO's potential, the participating organizations must become fully informed about each other's particular abilities and competencies, as represented by their shared business services (BSs). Our approach proposes the creation of a common shared pool of integrated BSs, and further optimizing it through consolidating similar and related BSs, to reduce the size of this shared pool and enhance its learning curve by the VO partners. To this end, we extend and adapt a Business Process merge technique to make it more suitable to BS consolidation and VO applicability. In this paper, a semiautomated methodology is introduced that creates an optimized, clean (i.e., anomaly-free consolidated model), and valid (i.e., approved by domain experts) set of consolidated BSs in the VO context. Design science principles are applied to this research, and a systematic literature review is also performed. Furthermore, a real case study from the construction industry is conducted to validate the introduced methodology.

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“…IDEF3 provides a mechanism for collecting and documenting processes, by capturing precedence and causality relations between situations and events. There are two IDEF3 description modes 4 …”

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“…In [4], numerous ambiguities in the descriptions and under specifications of semantically relevant concepts pervade the standard document and leave space for incompatible (but, due to the lack of precision, standard `conforming') interpretations in design, analysis and use of BPs. Another under specification concerns expression evaluation.…”

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Ontology Mapping of Business Process Modeling Based on Formal Temporal Logic

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Abstract-A business process is the combination of a set of activities with logical order and dependence, whose objective is to produce a desired goal. Business process modeling (BPM) using knowledge of the available process modeling techniques enables a common understanding and analysis of a business process. Industry and academics use informal and formal techniques respectively to represent business processes (BP), having the main objective to support an organization. Despite both are aiming at BPM, the techniques used are quite different in their semantics. While carrying out literature research, it has been found that there is no general representation of business process modeling is available that is expressive than the commercial modeling tools and techniques. Therefore, it is primarily conceived to provide an ontology mapping of modeling terms of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Unified Modeling Language (UML) Activity Diagrams (AD) and Event Driven Process Chains (EPC) to temporal logic. Being a formal system, first order logic assists in thorough understanding of process modeling and its application. However, our contribution is to devise a versatile conceptual categorization of modeling terms/constructs and also formalizing them, based on well accepted business notions, such as action, event, process, connector and flow. It is demonstrated that the new categorization of modeling terms mapped to formal temporal logic, provides the expressive power to subsume business process modeling techniques i.e. BPMN, UML AD and EPC.

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Automated conflict detection between medical care pathways

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Approaches to modeling business processes: a critical analysis of BPMN, workflow patterns and YAWL

Cited by 120 publications

References 42 publications

A systematic approach for business service consolidation in virtual organizations

A systematic approach for business service consolidation in virtual organizations

Ontology Mapping of Business Process Modeling Based on Formal Temporal Logic

Automated conflict detection between medical care pathways

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