Modeling Mobile Workflows with BPMN

Decker, Michael; Che, Haiying; Oberweis, Andreas; Stürzel, Peter; Vogel, Matthias

doi:10.1109/icmb-gmr.2010.12

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“…Each activity node can be linked to one or a series of location nodes, shown by parallelograms, to indicate that it is compulsory or prohibited to perform certain activities in certain locations. [18] makes a similar proposal for BPMN diagrams, again showing locations by icons with a parallelogram shape. Thus creating separate nodes for locations, this slightly resembles the usage of UML notes to indicate locations, as investigated analytically in [5] and experimentally in [6], however with poorer user performance than an alternative approach of coloured nodes.…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 95%

Diagram Notations for Mobile Work Processes

Gopalakrishnan

Sindre

2011

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. In mobile and multi-channel information system, the geographical location and context of the user when performing some task may be important for the design of IT applications. Yet, mainstream process models seldom capture the "where" aspect, such as the location for performing some activity. In previous papers we have performed an initial analytical evaluation and two controlled experiments comparing some notation alternatives. For all these notation alternatives the underlying assumption has been that they should be achieved as fairly small adaptations of existing process notations, using UML Activity Diagrams as an example. In this paper we provide a more comprehensive analysis of the problems, using 9 principles for visual notations proposed by Moody, and considering clean-sheet design of a process notation in addition to minor adaptations of existing ones. The paper demonstrates how this would result in quite different notations, each with their pros and cons.

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Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 95%

Diagram Notations for Mobile Work Processes

Gopalakrishnan

Sindre

2011

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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“…In particular, workflows have been widely adopted in organisations, as they are abstractions used in the representation of business processes, allowing their modelling, deployment and distribution through a set of tasks or activities. As a consequence, workflows make possible the automation of business processes (Decker et al, 2010). Furthermore, the combined use of workflows and virtualised infrastructures such as clouds reduce the financial cost and improves the efficiency of business process executions (Saurabh and Ranjan, 2012;Robinson et al, 2012;Kikuchi, 2014;Suping et al, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An execution environment as a service for adaptive long-running workflows

Souza-Júnior

Rosa

Lins

2021

IJWIS

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Purpose This paper aims to present Long4Cloud (long-running workflows execution environment for cloud), a distributed and adaptive LRW execution environment delivered “as a service” solution. Design/methodology/approach LRWs last for hours, days or even months and their duration open the possibility of changes in business rules, service interruptions or even alterations of formal regulations of the business before the workflow completion. These events can lead to problems such as loss of intermediary results or exhaustion of computational resources used to manage the workflow execution. Existing solutions face those problems by merely allowing the replacement (at runtime) of services associated with activities of the LRW. Findings LONG4Cloud extends the previous works in two main aspects, namely, the inclusion of dynamic reconfiguration capabilities and the adoption of an “as a service” delivery mode. The reconfiguration mechanism uses quiescence principles, data and state management and provides multiple adaptive strategies. Long4Cloud also adopts a scenario-based analysis to decide the adaptation to be performed. Events such as changes in business rules or service failures trigger reconfigurations supported by the environment. These features have been put together in a solution delivered “as a service” that takes advantage of cloud elasticity and allows to better allocate cloud resources to fit into the demands of LRWs. Originality/value The original contribution of Long4Cloud is to incorporate adaptive capabilities into the LRW execution environment as an effective way to handle the specificities of this kind of workflow. Experiments using current data of a Brazilian health insurance company were carried out to evaluate Long4Cloud and show performance gains in the execution of LRWs submitted to the proposed environment.

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“…This technique species that users could check geographical positions and distances based on a geographical map, but does not indicate how geographical aspects can inuence the behavioral aspects of the process. Decker et al [4,13] have dened location constraints for individual workow activities when modeling a workow schema to restrict the location where an activity can be performed, but the location constraints lack comprehension and expressiveness.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To illustrate our location-aware Petri net modeling extension and its execution semantics, we will utilize a running example throughout this paper, inspired on the case examples provided in [13]. The basic WF-net is depicted in Fig.…”

Section: Running Examplementioning

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Towards Location-Aware Process Modeling and Execution

Zhu

Broucke

et al. 2015

Business Process Management Workshops

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Business Process Management (BPM) has emerged as one of the abiding systematic management approaches in order to design, execute and govern organizational business processes. Traditionally, most attention within the BPM community has been given to studying controlow aspects, without taking other contextual aspects into account. This paper contributes to the existing body of work by focusing on the particular context of geospatial information. We argue that explicitly taking this context into consideration in the modeling and execution of business processes can contribute to improve their eectiveness and eciency. As such, the goal of this paper is to make the modeling and execution aspects of BPM location-aware. We do so by proposing a Petri net modeling extension which is formalized by means of a mapping to coloured Petri nets. Our approach has been implemented using CPN Tools and a simulation extension was developed to support the execution and validation of location-aware process models. We also illustrate the feasibility of coupling business process support systems with geographical information systems by means of an experimental case setup.

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Modeling Mobile Workflows with BPMN

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Diagram Notations for Mobile Work Processes

Diagram Notations for Mobile Work Processes

An execution environment as a service for adaptive long-running workflows

Towards Location-Aware Process Modeling and Execution

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