Towards Object-Aware Process Management Systems: Issues, Challenges, Benefits

Künzle, Vera; Reichert, Manfred

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01862-6_17

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“…The respective properties were discovered in an extensive analysis of processes currently not adequately supported by process management technology [12,13,16,14]. To ensure that the processes we considered are not "self-made" examples, but constitute real-world processes of high practical relevance, we further analyzed processes implemented in existing business applications.…”

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“…In the PHILharmonicFlows project, we analyzed numerous business processes from different domains which require a tight data integration [12][13][14][15]. We learned that many of these processes are data-driven and that their support requires object-awareness; i.e., the progress of these processes depends on the processing of certain business data represented through business objects.…”

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“…Section 2 introduces the main characteristics of data-driven and objectaware processes, which we gathered in a number of case studies [12,13,17] (see [18] for details about the research methodology applied). Following this, Section 3 sketches core components of our PHILharmonicFlows framework, which enables comprehensive support of data-driven and object-aware processes.…”

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Process and Data: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Reichert

2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Companies increasingly adopt process management technology which offers promising perspectives for realizing flexible information systems. However, there still exist numerous process scenarios not adequately covered by contemporary information systems. One major reason for this deficiency is the insufficient understanding of the inherent relationships existing between business processes on the one side and business data on the other. Consequently, these two perspectives are not well integrated in many existing process management systems. This paper emphasizes the need for both object-and process-awareness in future information systems, and illustrates it along several examples. Especially, the relation between these two fundamental perspectives will be discussed, and the role of business objects and data as drivers for both process modeling and process enactment be emphasized. In general, any business process support should consider object behavior as well as object interactions, and therefore be based on two levels of granularity. In addition, data-driven process execution and integrated user access to processes and data are needed. Besides giving insights into these fundamental characteristics, an advanced framework supporting them in an integrated manner will be presented and its application to real-world process scenarios be shown. Overall, a holistic and generic framework integrating processes, data, and users will contribute to overcome many of the limitations of existing process management technology.

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Process and Data: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

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2012

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“…Künzle & Reichert, 2009;Müller & Reichert, 2007,2008. As a consequence, current WfMSs do not provide an adequate means for inter-workflow coordination (van der Aalst, Mans & Russell, 2009;Heinlein 2002) One of the earliest formalisms which acknowledged the above mentioned problems is the Proclets framework presented by van der Aalst et al (2000Aalst et al ( , 2001.…”

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“…In comparison to the Proclets framework there are a limited range of alternate approaches that deal with the same issues (Künzle & Reichert, 2009). Müller et al (2007Müller et al ( , 2008 have worked on the Corepro framework which allows automatic generation and coordination of individual processes based on their underlying data structure.…”

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Lightweight Interacting Patient Treatment Processes

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International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations

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Nick Russell has over 20 years experience in IT, both in Australia and the Netherlands, in a variety of senior management, technical, and research roles. He is currently Chief Technology Officer for a major Australian tools distributor. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. He completed his masters and doctoral degrees at Queensland University of Technology. Over the past 7 years, he has been the driving force for the extension of the workflow patterns to the data, resource, and exception handling perspectives and the development of the newYAWL business process modeling reference language. Nick ABSTRACTProcesses concerning the diagnosis and treatment of patients cannot be straightjacketed into traditional production-like workflows. They can be best characterized as weakly-connected interacting light-weight workflows where tasks reside at different levels of granularity. Moreover, for each individual patient a doctor proceeds in a step-by-step way deciding about the next steps to be taken. Classical workflow notations fall short in supporting these patient processes as they have been designed to support monolithic processes. Classical notations (WFnets, BPMN, EPCs, etc.) assume that a workflow process can be modeled by specifying the lifecycle of a single case in isolation. To address these problems, we present an extension of the Proclets framework which allows for dividing complex entangled processes into simple autonomous fragments. Additionally, increased emphasis is placed on interaction related aspects such that fragment instances for individual patients can cooperate in any desired way. Finally, we describe an implementation of the Proclets framework. Proclets have been added to the opensource Workflow Management System YAWL to better support inter-workflow support functionalities.

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PHILharmonicFlows: towards a framework for object‐aware process management

Künzle

Reichert

2011

J. Softw. Maint. Evol.: Res. Pract.

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Companies increasingly adopt process management systems (PrMS) that offer promising perspectives for more flexible and efficient process execution. However, there still exist many processes in practice which are not adequately supported by contemporary PrMS. We believe that a major reason for this deficiency stems from the unsatisfactory integration of processes and data in existing PrMS. Despite emerging approaches that address this integration, a unified and comprehensive understanding of object‐awareness in connection with process management is still missing. To remedy this deficiency, we extensively analyzed various processes from different domains which are not adequately supported by existing PrMS. As a major insight we learned that in many cases comprehensive process support requires object‐awareness. In particular, process support has to consider object behavior as well as object interactions, and should therefore be based on two levels of granularity. Besides this, object‐awareness requires data‐driven process execution and integrated access to processes and data. This paper presents the basic properties of object‐aware processes as well as fundamental requirements for their operational support. It further introduces our PHILharmonicFlows framework which addresses these requirements and enables object‐aware process management in a comprehensive manner. Finally, we evaluate this framework along several process scenarios. We believe that a holistic approach integrating data, processes and users offers promising perspectives in order to overcome the numerous limitations of contemporary PrMS. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Towards Object-Aware Process Management Systems: Issues, Challenges, Benefits

Cited by 64 publications

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Process and Data: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Process and Data: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Lightweight Interacting Patient Treatment Processes

PHILharmonicFlows: towards a framework for object‐aware process management

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