A formal representation for context-aware business processes

Mattos, Talita da Cunha; Santoro, Flávia Maria; Revoredo, Kate; Nunes, Vanessa

doi:10.1016/j.compind.2014.07.005

Cited by 52 publications

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“…Each part of the Context-Aware BPM proposal was evaluated, and the results can be found in: [16][2] [11][6] [13]. We summarize here one of the evaluations made involving the broad proposal.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Classes are represented by rectangles, and relationships by arrows. This work was reported in details in [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…From the validated model and the CE domain model [11], situations and process components were identified and validated with the modeling analysts. Several CE that could possibly affect the process were identified, such as "RainfallLevelDestination" and "MeteorologicalStatus".…”

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Modeling and Using Context in Business Process Management: A Research Agenda

Santoro¹,

Baião²,

Revoredo³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. Business Process Management (BPM) is the art and science of monitoring how the work is performed within an organization to ensure consistent results and opportunities for improvement. One important research topic on BPM relates to the issue of flexibility. Unplanned conditions may occur at any time during process execution. In dynamic environments, changes must be performed more frequently and systematically and considering not only pre-established rules, but also contextual information. The literature indicates context as a source of information that should be considered in the modeling of business processes in order to contribute to their flexibility when in the execution phase. In this paper, we present the results from our studies about context in the whole cycle of BPM. The goal is to describe an approach that comprises solutions for modeling, gathering, using and evolving context in a BPM oriented environment.

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Section: Results From Evaluationsmentioning

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“…Classes are represented by rectangles, and relationships by arrows. This work was reported in details in [11].…”

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“…[37]. According to [38], the model describes a set of organized and structured activities with defined inputs and defined outputs. Moreover, design or modeling of the business process is described as the time period during which manual and/or automated workflow descriptions of a process are described [40].…”

Section: Development Of Business Processmentioning

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“…Each business rule is an expression, which results in a value of true, false or null (unknown) [38]. Furthermore, business rules represent specific policies, practices, standards, regulations, and guidelines that define how business units or actors in the enterprise carry out business and are therefore considered to be user-perspective requirements [77].…”

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Process-Oriented Requirements Engineering: User-Centric LORS Framework

Al-Sabri¹,

Al‐Mashari²

2017

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In recent years, the process orientation requirements engineering field has received significant interest. However, dealing with ordinary users within an enterprise for developing as-is business process is very complex because this requires skills, responsibility, knowledge, and expertise of business processes. This research answers the following questions: 1) how to systematically gather information regarding as-is business process requirements in an informal environment and by non-expert users? and 2) how can an enterprise refine the identified business process with a semantic process model? The primary purpose of this research is to develop a supporting framework that is suitable for the definition of an as-is business process to be deployed within the enterprise environment. Hence, the focus is on gathering requirements to define the as-is business process. This framework concentrates on three significant aspects of this process: development, refinement, and serialization the semantics of the process model. To accomplish this objective, the LORS framework has been proposed, which consists of four phases (List, Order, Refinement, and Serialization). The framework presents a new unique technique to identify the business process, refine the process, and generate the model semantics. This study assumes that a simple and complete framework will help non-expert users define a high-quality as-is process, such that enhance and facilitate the matching process with existing reference models. We present a case study, evaluate the case study relative to specified criteria, and research the limitations and implications discovered from our research. This research concludes that the LORS framework is simple, flexible, visible, interactive, dynamic, and effective.

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