Guiding the Creation of Choreographed Processes with Multiple Instances Based on Data Models

Abstract

Choreography in business processes is used as a mechanism to communicate various organizations, by providing a method to isolate the behaviour of each part and keeping the privacy of their data. Nevertheless, choreography diagrams can also be necessary inside an organization when a single instance of a process needs to interact and be synchronized with multiple instances of another process simultaneously. The description, by business experts, and the implementation, by developers, of these choreographed models are highly complex, especially when the activities involved in the processes exchange various data objects and with different cardinalities. We propose the automatic detection of the synchronization points, when a choreographed process model is needed. The choreography will be derived from the analysis of the process model, data objects consumed and generated through the process, and the data conceptual model that relates the data objects. A graphical tool has been developed to support where the synchronization points must be included, helping to decide about the patterns that describe how a single model can be transformed into a choreographed model.

An Architecture for Querying Business Process, Business Process Instances, and Business Data Models

“…The relation between data stored and process activities have been studied in [11], [6] and [12], but not having as a goal to query both at the same time, only to have a way to create a model where both aspects are combined.…”

Data‐driven business process similarity

“…To this end attribute labels and types, also the relationship between objects (e.g. foreign keys) can be used [42][43][44][45]. Adding these features to the proposed method can provide a complete framework for calculating the similarity of processes.…”

Development of an approach to analysis and optimization of data flow diagrams

“…Анализ моделей бизнес-процессов в нотации BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) также осуществляется с использованием взвешенных ори-ентированных графов [8,9]. В то время как в литера-туре, помимо работ [5] и [10], не рассматриваются подходы к анализу диаграмм DFD.…”