Process Landscaping: Modelling Distributed Processes and Proving Properties of Distributed Process Models

Gruhn, Volker; Wellen, Ursula

doi:10.1007/3-540-45541-8_5

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“…During earlier work, we introduced the process landscaping approach (Gruhn and Wellen, 2001), (Gruhn and Wellen, 2000). It pays particular attention to the modelling of distributed processes with emphasis on the data and documents moving around between different locations.…”

Section: Process Landscape Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling, Analysis and Improvement of Mobile Business Processes With the MPL Method

Gruhn

Köhler

2009

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information

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Abstract:This paper introduces the Mobile Process Landscaping (MPL) method for modelling, analysing and improving mobile business processes. Current approaches for process modelling and analysis do not explicitly allow the consideration of typical mobility issues, e.g. location-dependent activities, mobile networks as resources and specifics of mobile information systems. Thus, our method focuses on the modelling and analysis of these characteristics, and is furthermore based on the process landscaping approach, supporting the easy creation of hierarchical models of distributed processes. The method comes with a specialized modelling notation and guidelines for the creation of process landscapes, context models, and business object models. Furthermore, it provides a catalogue of formally defined evaluation objectives, targeting at typical mobility issues. Each evaluation objective can automatically be tested on the created process landscape. Furthermore, the method includes a best practices catalogue with patterns for process and application improvements for typical mobility situations. A validation of the method is presented showing results from the method's use in a real-world project.

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Section: Process Landscape Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling, Analysis and Improvement of Mobile Business Processes With the MPL Method

Gruhn

Köhler

2009

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information

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“…For that, a possible approach to create a transformable, and at the end executable, process reference model is to formalize it with UML [11], eventually complemented with xUML (eXecutable UML) [3]. Similar approaches were used with success in [12,27]. In contexts where software is to be reused, two steps are needed: First, a representation of the implemented business processes must be drawn and incorporated into the business processes model; Second, a suitable application driver must be developed, eventually using SOA [20], in order to tie the business processes model to the running software.…”

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Automated Information Systems Generation for Process-Oriented Organizations

Cruz

Faria

2007

6th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2007)

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Currently, the development of organizational information systems remains a complex task. Final software product quality often does not match expectations. The existence of organizational models is the first step to reduce complexity in the development of information systems.Within the life cycle of an information system, activities are still very dependent in quality, time, and costs on the human resource skills that staff them. The existence of automated mechanisms to transform client requirements into characteristics of running systems would bring added value to the resulting software product, either in product quality and time perspectives.In this proposal, the manipulation of requirements must be done using an understandable model for both software engineers and business process experts. This model should be used to automatically reshape the running organizational information system and be the basis for an automated information system generation. The usage of such mechanism can be done during a development project, but also after its implementation where standalone process experts could change the organization model, knowing that the changes, in an automated mode, would be transferred into the running system.

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“…It is a specialisation of the "Process Landscaping" method [11]. The idea of the method is to split the modelling of processes into different tiers, starting with a coarse and simplified form of the process description and then increasing the level of detail with each tier.…”

Section: Specialisation Of Process Landscapingmentioning

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Analysis of Mobile Business Processes for the Design of Mobile Information Systems

Köhler

Gruhn

2004

E-Commerce and Web Technologies

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Abstract. The adoption of mobile technologies into companies frequently follows a technology -driven approach without precise knowledge about the potential benefits that may be realised. Especially in larger organisations with complex business processes, a systematic procedure is required if a verifiable economic benefit is to be created by the use of mobile technologies. Therefore, the term "mobile business process", as well as requirements for information systems applied in such processes, are defined in this paper. Subsequently, we introduce a procedure for the systematical analysis of the distributed structure of a business process model in order to identify mobile sub-processes. For that purpose, the method Mobile Process Landscaping is used to decompose a process model into different levels of detail. The method aims to manage the complexity and limit the process analysis to the potentially mobile subprocesses from the beginning. The result of the analysis can be used on the one hand as a foundation for the redesign of the business processes and on the other hand for the requirements engineering of mobile information systems. An application of this method is shown by the example of business processes in the insurance industry.

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Process Landscaping: Modelling Distributed Processes and Proving Properties of Distributed Process Models

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Modelling, Analysis and Improvement of Mobile Business Processes With the MPL Method

Modelling, Analysis and Improvement of Mobile Business Processes With the MPL Method

Automated Information Systems Generation for Process-Oriented Organizations

Analysis of Mobile Business Processes for the Design of Mobile Information Systems

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