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Title

A framework for behavior-consistent specialization of artifact-centric business processes

Author(s)

Yongchareon, Sira;  Liu, Chengfei;  Zhao, Xiaohui

Abstract

Driven by complex and dynamic business process requirements, there has been an increasing demand for business process reuse to improve modeling efficiency. Process specialization is an effective reuse method that can be used to customize and extend base process models to specialized models. In the recent years, artifact-centric business process modeling has emerged as it supports a more flexible process structure compared with traditional activity-centric process models. Although, process specialization has been studied for the traditional models by treating a process as a single object, the specialization of artifact-centric processes that consist of multiple interacting artifacts has not been studied. Inheriting interactions among artifacts for specialized processes and ensuring the consistency of the processes are challenging. To address these issues, we propose a novel framework for process specialization comprising artifact-centric process models, methods to define a specialized process model based on an existing process model, and the behavior consistency between the specialized model and its base model.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Lecture notes in computer science: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2012), Tallinn, Estonia, 03-06 September 2012 / Alistair Barros, Avigdor Gal and Ekkart Kindler (eds.), Vol. 7481, pp. 285-301

Publication year

2012

Keyword(s)

Business process requirements;  Efficient systems;  Process specialisation;  Reuse

Publisher

Springer

ISSN

0302-9743 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9783642328848, 3642328849

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32885-5_23

Copyright

Copyright © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version of the publication is available at www.springer.com.

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