Integrated modeling of process- and data-centric software systems with PHILharmonicFlows

Chiao, Carolina Ming; Künzle, Vera; Reichert, Manfred

doi:10.1109/cpsm.2013.6703085

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“…7.1 Modeling, verifying and executing data-driven workflows Many authors have proposed approaches to ensure a close integration of processes and data. In [11,32], the authors propose an approach, implemented in the PHILharmonicFlows system, which allows the representation of data in form of objects, and their integration into the control flow by exploiting their life cycles, using the classical P-nets.…”

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“…Furthermore, the approach provides a mechanism to automatically generate forms from objects, and during the execution of a particular activity, the user can treat various forms corresponding to the same object instance simultaneously while maintaining data consistency. However, activities with advanced features such as complex calculations are classified by the system as black boxes that necessitate the use of programmers to implement the source code running its execution details [11,32].…”

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“…Due to its formal semantics despite its graphical nature, the P-nets formalism is widely used by most of the approaches that result from research in the data-driven workflow management, such as [6,11,52,63]. WfMSs, based on these approaches, include generic functions for assigning tasks to actors, notifying actors on the most urgent tasks, ensuring the data routing between actors, or mapping data so that they can be used by invoked applications.…”

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A data-centric approach to manage business processes

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We proposed, in previous works, a business process execution language for data-driven workflow modeling, verification, and execution; the proposed model can present both control flow and shared data in workflow processes. It can be analyzed to verify its correctness before its deployment. In this paper, we are going to improve the semantics of our approach to allow better integration between data and control flow, and between the workflow and its external environment (such as relational databases and XML documents). We are also going to extend our approach to generate multidimensional data models, namely OLAP hypercubes, from data handled by the workflow, in order to provide synthetic view of data for decision makers.

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“…Data-centric approaches aim at providing a complete integration of the process and data perspectives. Therefore, they rely on design methodologies in which the identification and definition of process activities are induced by the specification of a data model [6,12].…”

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DALEC: a framework for the systematic evaluation of data-centric approaches to process management software

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The increasing importance of data in business processes has led to the emergence of data-centric business process management, which deviates from the widely used activity-centric paradigm. Data-centric approaches set their focus on data, aiming at supporting data-intensive business processes and increased process flexibility. The objective of this article is to gain profound insights into the maturity of different data-centric approaches as well as their capabilities. In particular, this article will provide a framework for systematically evaluating and comparing data-centric approaches, with regard to the phases of the business process lifecycle. To this end, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted with the goal of evaluating the capabilities of data-centric process management approaches. The SLR comprises 38 primary studies which were thoroughly analyzed. The studies were categorized into different approaches, whose capabilities were thoroughly assessed. Special focus was put on the tooling and software of the approaches. The article provides the empirically grounded DALEC framework to evaluate and compare data-centric approaches. Furthermore, the results of the SLR offer insights into existing data-centric approaches and their capabilities. Data-centric approaches promise better support of loosely structured and data-intensive business processes, which may not be adequately represented by activity-centric paradigms.

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“…This requires the identification of execution-related data for activities. Building on the insights from [3,37,38,39], we investigate the following four execution-related aspect for each automatable activity:…”

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A semi-automated approach for generating natural language requirements documents based on business process models

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Information and Software Technology

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Context: The analysis of requirements for business-related software systems is often supported by using business process models. However, the final requirements are typically still specified in natural language.This means that the knowledge captured in process models must be consistently transferred to the specified requirements. Possible inconsistencies between process models and requirements represent a serious threat for the successful development of the software system and may require the repetition of process analysis activities.Objective: The objective of this paper is to address the problem of inconsistency between process models and natural language requirements in the context of software development. Method:We define a semi-automated approach that consists of a process model-based procedure for capturing execution-related data in requirements models and an algorithm that takes these models as input for generating natural language requirements. We evaluated our approach in the context of a multiple case study with three organizations and a total of 13 software development projects.Results: We found that our approach can successfully generate well-readable requirements, which do not only positively contribute to consistency, but also to the completeness and maintainability of requirements.The practical use of our approach to identify a suitable subcontractor on the market in 11 of the 13 projects further highlights the practical value of our approach. Conclusion:Our approach provides a structured way to obtain high-quality requirements documents from process models and to maintain textual and visual representations of requirements in a consistent way.

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Integrated modeling of process- and data-centric software systems with PHILharmonicFlows

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

A data-centric approach to manage business processes

A data-centric approach to manage business processes

DALEC: a framework for the systematic evaluation of data-centric approaches to process management software

A semi-automated approach for generating natural language requirements documents based on business process models

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