Modeling and Enacting Complex Data Dependencies in Business Processes

Meyer, Andreas; Pufahl, Luise; Fahland, Dirk; Weske, Mathias

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40176-3_14

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“…In the SLR analysis, we found one approach (Enhanced Activity-centric Approach [48]) devoted to extend a nondata-centric approach with advanced data-centric capabilities. Specifically, the Enhanced Activity-centric Approach improves a traditional data element of BPMN by replacing it with a data object, which contains attributes, has a dedicated lifecycle, and can be correlated with other data objects as well.…”

Section: Data Representation Constructsmentioning

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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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Section: Data Representation Constructsmentioning

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

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“…Both milestones and guards are controlled in a declarative manner, based on triggering events and/or conditions. Other approaches include BPMN with data [18] and PHILharmonic flows [19].…”

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Decentralized enforcement of document lifecycle constraints

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Betti

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Information Systems

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Artifact-centric workflows describe possible executions of a business process through constraints expressed from the point of view of the documents exchanged between principals. A sequence of manipulations is deemed valid as long as every document in the workflow follows its prescribed lifecycle at all steps of the process. So far, establishing that a given workflow complies with artifact lifecycles has mostly been done through static verification, or by assuming a centralized access to all artifacts where these constraints can be monitored and enforced. We present in this paper an alternate method of enforcing document lifecycles that requires neither static verification nor single-point access. Rather, the document itself is designed to carry fragments of its history, protected from tampering using hashing and public-key encryption. Any principal involved in the process can verify at any time that the history of a document complies with a given lifecycle. Moreover, the proposed system also enforces access permissions: not all actions are visible to all principals, and one can only modify and verify what one is allowed to observe. These concepts have been implemented in a software library called Artichoke, and empirically tested for performance and scalability.

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“…For an implementation, the correlation between a process instance and its corresponding data objects can be realized via the object's primary and foreign keys as discussed in [10]. 6 …”

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“…The executionOrder describes whether the process instances comprised within one batch cluster are synchronized parallelly or sequentially. Parallel execution means that all 10 instances for one activity are executed simultaneously and get terminated before the next activity is executed the same way. Sequential execution can be activity-based, the sequential variant of parallel execution, or case-based where the activities within a batch region are executed for one process instance (case) before the next one can be started.…”

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Batch Regions: Process Instance Synchronization Based on Data

Pufahl

Meyer

Weske

2014

2014 IEEE 18th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference

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Bibliografische Information der Deutschen NationalbibliothekDie Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.dnb.de/ abrufbar. Abstract. Business process automation improves organizations' efficiency to perform work. In existing business process management systems, process instances run independently from each other. However, synchronizing instances carrying similar characteristics, i.e., sharing the same data, can reduce process execution costs. For example, if an online retailer receives two orders from one customer, there is a chance that they can be packed and shipped together to save shipment costs. In this paper, we use concepts from the database domain and introduce data views to business processes to identify instances which can be synchronized. Based on data views, we introduce the concept of batch regions for a context-aware instance synchronization over a set of connected activities. We also evaluate the concepts introduced in this paper with a case study comparing costs for normal and batch processing. Universitätsverlag

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Modeling and Enacting Complex Data Dependencies in Business Processes

Cited by 88 publications

References 21 publications

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

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

Decentralized enforcement of document lifecycle constraints

Batch Regions: Process Instance Synchronization Based on Data

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