Generating Database Schemas from Business Artifact Models

Assaf, Maroun Abi; Badr, Youakim; Khoury, Hicham El; Barbar, Kablan

doi:10.5815/ijitcs.2018.02.02

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“…In the ADEPT multi-agent system, process logic is expressed in the so-called service definition language (SDL); the resulting model is such as at runtime, agents have sufficient freedom to take alternative execution paths (from the model) to complete the process goal. As mentioned in the introduction, for the last two decades, a lot of work on process modelling has been done on the artifact-centric paradigm [6,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. This paradigm was introduced by IBM through the work of Nigam and Caswell [6].…”

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A Language and Methodology based on Scenarios, Grammars and Views, for Administrative Business Processes Modelling

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In Business Process Management (BPM), process modelling has been solved in various ways. However, there are no commonly accepted modelling tools (languages). Some of them are criticized for their inability to capture both the lifecycle, informational and organizational models of processes. For some others, process modelling is generally done using a single graph; this does not facilitate modularity, maintenance and scalability. In addition, some of these languages are very general; hence, their application to specific domain processes (such as administrative processes) is very complex. In this paper, we present a new language and a new methodology, dedicated to administrative process modelling. This language is based on a variant of attributed grammars and is able to capture the lifecycle, informational and organizational models of such processes. Also, it proposes a simple graphical formalism allowing to model each process's execution scenario as an annotated tree (modularity). In the new language, a particular emphasis is put on modelling (using "views") the perceptions that actors have on processes and their data.

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“…Workflow technology aim at automating business processes 4 . To do so, it provides a clear framework composed of two major entities: (1) a workflow language for the description of such processes in a (generally graphical) format that can be interpreted by (2) a software system called Workflow Management System (WfMS).…”

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“…To precisely remedy this, researchers have developed over the last two decades and under the initiative of IBM, the artifact-centric [15] approach to the design and execution of business processes. This one, revisited in several works [2,9,10,11,3,4,7], proposes a new approach to workflow management by focusing on both automated processes and data manipulated using the concept of "business artifact" or "artifact" in short. An artifact is considered as a document that conveys all the information concerning a particular case of execution of a given business process, from its inception in the system to its termination.…”

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A Grammatical Model for the Specification of Administrative Workflow Using Scenario as Modelling Unit

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Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Process modelling is a crucial phase of Business Process Management (BPM). Despite the many efforts made in producing process modelling tools, existing tools (languages) are not commonly accepted. They are mainly criticised for their inability to specify both the tasks making up the processes and their scheduling (their lifecycle models), the data they manipulate (their information models) and their organizational models. Process modelling in these languages often results in a single task graph; such a graph can quickly become difficult to read and maintain. Moreover, these languages are often too general (they have a very high expressiveness); this makes their application to specific types of processes complex: especially for administrative processes. In this paper, we present a new language for administrative processes modelling that allows designers to specify the lifecycle, information and organizational models of such processes using a mathematical tool based on a variant of attributed grammars. The approach imposed by the new language requires the designer to subdivide his process into scenarios, then to model each scenario individually using a simple task graph (an annotated tree) from which a grammatical model is further derived. At each moment then, the designer manipulates only a scenario of the studied process: this approach is more intuitive and modular; it allows to produce task graphs that are more refined and therefore, more readable and easier to maintain.

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Generating Database Schemas from Business Artifact Models

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A Language and Methodology based on Scenarios, Grammars and Views, for Administrative Business Processes Modelling

A Language and Methodology based on Scenarios, Grammars and Views, for Administrative Business Processes Modelling

A Grammatical Model for the Specification of Administrative Workflow Using Scenario as Modelling Unit

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