Business artifacts with guard-stage-milestone lifecycles

Hull, Richard; Damaggio, Elio; Masellis, Riccardo De; Fournier, Fabiana; Gupta, Madhur; Heath, Fenno Terry; Hobson, Stacy; Linehan, Mark; Maradugu, Sridhar; Nigam, Anil; Sukaviriya, Piwadee Noi; Vaculín, Roman

doi:10.1145/2002259.2002270

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“…In [12], [13]. Works in [14] have introduced the Business Entities and Business Entity Definition Language (BEDL), an XML-based language, for modeling Business Artifact processes.…”

Section: Prototypingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generating Database Schemas from Business Artifact Models

Assaf¹,

Badr²,

Khoury³

et al. 2018

IJITCS

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Abstract-Business Artifacts, as an alternative approach to Business Process Modeling, combines both process and data aspects of a Business into the same model. Many works in the literature have focused on defining Artifactcentric processes and graphical modeling notations. But, to the best of our knowledge, no prior work has directly tackled the problem of generating Database Schemas from Business Artifact Models. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that generates Database Schemas from Business Artifact Models (BAMs). The proposed algorithm not only takes into consideration the different data attribute types of Artifacts' Information Models, but also supports different Artifacts relationships. We also validate our work with a prototype implementation of a Business Artifact Models Modeler and a Database Schema Generator.

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“…In [12], [13]. Works in [14] have introduced the Business Entities and Business Entity Definition Language (BEDL), an XML-based language, for modeling Business Artifact processes.…”

Section: Prototypingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generating Database Schemas from Business Artifact Models

Assaf¹,

Badr²,

Khoury³

et al. 2018

IJITCS

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“…In this section, we will review and analyze typical examples of such attempts, choosing the ones that have included relatively formal definitions of the process model. More specifically, we consider the following examples of non-traditional process modeling techniques: (a) declarative process modeling that includes the notion of state [20], (b) artifact-centered process modeling [21], [22], (c) data-driven process modeling [23] and (d) state-oriented process modeling [24].…”

Section: Existing Non-workflow Business Process Modeling Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Firstly, we give a short overview of the state of the art in CM/ACM field (Section 2.1), and explain the main ideas of * Our way of defining data-centric process modeling substantially differs from other suggestion for nonworkflow process modeling, e.g. as artifact-based process modeling [22], data-driven process modeling [23], declarative process modeling [20], or state-oriented process modeling [24]. These works will be considered in Section 3. agile business process development (Section 2.2).…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards a Business Process Modeling Technique for Agile Development of Case Management Systems

Bider

Perjons

2017

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Abstract.A modern organization needs to adapt its behavior to changes in the business environment by changing its Business Processes (BP) and corresponding Business Process Support (BPS) systems. One way of achieving such adaptability is via separation of the system code from the process description/model by applying the concept of executable process models. Furthermore, to ease introduction of changes, such process model should separate different perspectives, for example, control-flow, human resources, and data perspectives, from each other. In addition, for developing a completely new process, it should be possible to start with a reduced process model to get a BPS system quickly running, and then continue to develop it in an agile manner. This article consists of two parts, the first sets requirements on modeling techniques that could be used in the tools that supports agile development of BPs and BPS systems. The second part suggests a business process modeling technique that allows to start modeling with the data/information perspective which would be appropriate for processes supported by Case or Adaptive Case Management (CM/ACM) systems. In a model produced by this technique, called data-centric business process model, a process instance/case is defined as sequence of states in a specially designed instance database, while the process model is defined as a set of rules that set restrictions on allowed states and transitions between them. The article details the background for the project of developing the datacentric process modeling technique, presents the outline of the structure of the model, and gives formal definitions for a substantial part of the model.

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“…Hence, the languages are well suited to structured processes with little variation. On the other hand, the so-called declarative paradigm, including languages such as Declare [28], Multi-Perspective-Declare (MP-Declare) [8], DCR graphs [22], GSM [23] and the Declarative Process Intermediate Language (DPIL) [31,44], focuses on describing the process by restrictions (so-called constraints) over the behaviour, which must be satisfied throughout the whole process execution. Thus, they do not model the control flow explicitly.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Language-independent look-ahead for checking multi-perspective declarative process models

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Declarative process modelling languages focus on describing a process by restrictions over the behaviour, which must be satisfied throughout the whole process execution. Hence, they are well suited for modelling knowledge-intensive processes with many decision points. However, such models can be hard to read and understand, which affect the modelling and maintenance of the process models tremendously as well as their execution. When executing such declarative (multi-perspective) process models, it may happen that the execution of activities or the change of data values may result in the non-executability of crucial activities. Hence, it would be beneficial to know all consequences of decisions to give recommendations to the process participants. A look-ahead attempts to predict the effects of executing an activity towards possible consequences within an a priori defined time window. The prediction is based on the current state of the process execution, the intended next event and the underlying process model. While execution engines for single-perspective imperative process models already implement such functionality, execution approaches, for multi-perspective declarative process models that involve constraints on data and resources, are less mature. In this paper, we introduce a simulation-based look-ahead approach for multi-perspective declarative process models. This approach transforms the problem of a context-aware process simulation into a SAT problem, by translating a declarative multi-perspective process model and the current state of a process execution into a specification of the logic language Alloy. Via a SAT solver, process trajectories are generated that either satisfy or violate this specification. The simulated process trajectories are used to derive consequences and effects of certain decisions at any time of process execution. We evaluate our approach by means of three examples and give some advice for further optimizations.

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Business artifacts with guard-stage-milestone lifecycles

Cited by 140 publications

References 11 publications

Generating Database Schemas from Business Artifact Models

Generating Database Schemas from Business Artifact Models

Towards a Business Process Modeling Technique for Agile Development of Case Management Systems

Language-independent look-ahead for checking multi-perspective declarative process models

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