Combining process modelling methods

Abeysinghe, Geetha; Phalp, Keith

doi:10.1016/s0950-5849(96)01126-3

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“…4a), but only one outflow would be operative at any one specific time. That is to say, when one of its outflows is chosen, the process is committed to pursue that path and, at the same time, all other paths become inaccessible [18].…”

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“…Referring to this definition, we can define the process logic of a process more explicit as a composite of alternative processing paths and sequences designed in a process for various business scenarios [17] and, what is more, a specific processing path should be chosen and executed to respond to the encountered situation [18].…”

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“…1, a flowchart will show the starting point at the top, then the processing steps sequencing down through the process, and finally at the bottom the terminal point [14]. In addition, to illustrate alternative processing paths and parallel paths within a process, two logical operators, "exclusive OR" (XOR) and "AND", are always introduced [10,18,19]. In this research, the logic operators, XOR and AND, are denoted by ⊗ and ∧ , respectively.…”

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A Process Logic Comparison Approach to Support Business Process Benchmarking

Juan

Ouyang

2004

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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Process benchmarking has become one of the major conceptual approaches in business process improvement. The needs of various comparative activities have been proposed for process benchmarking. Process logic comparison (PLC) paid attention to the differences between company's operations and partners' operations to discover improvement opportunities has become the most important task in process benchmarking. Although several concepts of PLC have been proposed in the literature, research in this area lacks a structural analytical approach for effective comparison. This paper has proposed an approach to assist project teams in PLC. There are three portions in this approach. First, alternative processing paths embedded in each compared process's flowchart are identified. Then, proper pairs of processing paths from compared flowcharts are selected for processing sequence comparison. Finally, the processing sequence comparison is performed on each derived pair of processing paths. Equipped with the proposed PLC approach, project teams can easily understand the differences between their own operations and partners' operations.

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A Process Logic Comparison Approach to Support Business Process Benchmarking

Juan

Ouyang

2004

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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“…The Model Driven Design and especially the Modeling Method Engineering (MME) is still a hot topic in research tackling different areas. For example when starting the MME project one has to decide if it is a new modeling method (as in [6]), a hybrid modeling method (as in [7] and [8]) or a refinement or extension of an existing modeling method (as in [9]). Parts of the MMSF building blocks that we apply to conceptualize a modeling method have been applied to an extent previously for solving different tasks.…”

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Model driven design for e-applications

Karagiannis

Hrgovcic

Woitsch

2011

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services

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This paper aims to answer the question, if a generic approach for Model-Driven Design of e-Applications exists. A proposal for generic approach on Model-Driven Design applied in different application scenarios for e-Government, e-Business and eLearning is introduced. Identified solutions are presented by applying a top-down, inside-out or bottom-up approach utilizing the Modeling Method Specification Framework in order to conceptualize, implement and deploy scenario-specific modeldriven design approaches that are either executed by machines or by humans. Focus of the paper is the common procedure to conceptualize Model-Driven Design for e-Applications.

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“…Some authors have suggested what might be termed 'process approaches' [3] to development methods, but these tend to adopt particular design tactics, where the process model replaces more 'popular' design notations. Others have attempted to examine how process models might map to existing approaches, for example, mapping process models to formal approaches [4] or more latterly, to use cases [5]. Although there is merit in these approaches, one of the problems is that in methodological terms they are implementation methodology dependent.…”

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