Process Modeling using Event‐Driven Process Chains

Scheer, August-Wilhelm; Thomas, Oliver; Adam, Otmar

doi:10.1002/0471741442.ch6

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“…The EPC notation (Dumas, van der Aalst, and ter Hofstede 2005) is more expressive than BPMN for resource modelling in the sense that it provides a specific representation of organisational units and allows defining organisational relations. However, to the best of our knowledge there is no support for responsibilities other than the resource in charge of executing the activity.…”

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A template-based approach for responsibility management in executable business processes

Cabanillas

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Ruiz–Cortés

2017

Enterprise Information Systems

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Process-oriented organisations need to manage the different types of responsibilities their employees may have w.r.t. the activities involved in their business processes. Despite several approaches provide support for responsibility modelling, in current Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) the only responsibility considered at runtime is the one related to performing the work required for activity completion. Others like accountability or consultation must be implemented by manually adding activities in the executable process model, which is time-consuming and error-prone. In this paper, we address this limitation by enabling current BPMS to execute processes in which people with different responsibilities interact to complete the activities. We introduce a metamodel based on Responsibility Assignment Matrices (RAM) to model the responsibility assignment for each activity, and a flexible template-based mechanism that automatically transforms such information into BPMN elements, which can be interpreted and executed by a BPMS. Thus, our approach does not enforce any specific behaviour for the different responsibilities but new templates can be modelled to specify the interaction that best suits the activity requirements. Furthermore, libraries of templates can be created and reused in different processes. We provide a reference implementation and build a library of templates for a well-known set of responsibilities.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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A template-based approach for responsibility management in executable business processes

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Ruiz–Cortés

2017

Enterprise Information Systems

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“…Starting with generic process reference models and IAvOs, an Instantiated PF is obtained. The business processes can be described, desirably in Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) [25], but also with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) [26], UML, Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) [27], or Colored Petri Nets (CPN) [28]. The preference for BPEL comes from the easiness to execute it.…”

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BIM: A Methodology to Transform Business Processes into Software Systems

Duarte

Machado

Fernandes

2012

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. This manuscript proposes a guiding methodology to obtain a software system that supports the execution of the business processes existing within an organization. The methodology promotes the usage of business process reference models and intends to reduce the implementation time of the software systems. The methodology assumes four distinct phases and several abstraction levels and is applicable both when developing systems from scratch or in re-engineering contexts. The methodology embodies a special phase to handle the diversity of the business processes of an organization. By tailoring process reference models and by considering the characteristics of a specific organization, a proper set of business processes is derived for that organization. Then, we can obtain a suitable information system and implement its automatable parts in a software solution that can run on top of open source software frameworks. We also present four new supporting concepts to the methodology, and a summarized execution of it.

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“…We can conclude that the ISPAR model should be redefined so that activities and possible outcomes or states of the system are separated from each other. To model the service process we propose the use of an EPC process model [15]. The EPC technique is a well-known Petri Net based process modeling technique.…”

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Towards a Process Model for Service Systems

Lemey

Poels

2012

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Service Science is a new interdisciplinary approach to the study, design, implementation, and innovation of service systems. However due to the variety in service research, there is no consensus yet about the theoretical foundation of this domain. As a basis for a common understanding of service systems and their interactions, Service Science researchers Spohrer and Kwan proposed the service systems worldview. The ISPAR model was presented as a part of this service systems worldview as a tool for identifying ten possible interaction episodes i.e., the sequences of activities that are undertaken by two interacting service system entities. In this paper we evaluate the use of the ISPAR model as a process model for service systems. We identify the shortcomings of the ISPAR model and propose possible improvements. This analysis leads to the development of a new service process model which is demonstrated through tree different examples.

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Process Modeling using Event‐Driven Process Chains

Cited by 175 publications

References 6 publications

A template-based approach for responsibility management in executable business processes

A template-based approach for responsibility management in executable business processes

BIM: A Methodology to Transform Business Processes into Software Systems

Towards a Process Model for Service Systems

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