View-Based Process Visualization

Bobrik, Ralph; Reichert, Manfred; Bauer, Thomas

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75183-0_7

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“…Existing BPMA techniques aggregate activities according to the process model structure: activities that belong to a process model fragment are aggregated into one coarse-grained activity. A fragment is either explicitly defined [3,22], or identified by its properties [27]. To illustrate the shortcomings of purely structural BPMA techniques, let us refer to one concrete example, an approach developed in [27].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As we mentioned in Section 2, the available BPMA techniques focus on the structural aspects of process model transformation, e.g., see [3,27,31]. In addition to those papers, there are works that discuss criteria for abstraction of model elements, see [12,15].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The transition from the initial process model to the abstract one is realized by two primitive operations: elimination and aggregation [3,22,27]. While elimination simply drops model elements, aggregation merges a set of low-level model elements into one more general element.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Meronymy-Based Aggregation of Activities in Business Process Models

Smirnov

Dijkman

Mendling

et al. 2010

Conceptual Modeling – ER 2010

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Abstract. As business process management is increasingly applied in practice, more companies document their operations in the form of process models. Since users require descriptions of one process on various levels of detail, there are often multiple models created for the same process. Business process model abstraction emerged as a technique reducing the number of models to be stored: given a detailed process model, business process model abstraction delivers abstract representations for the same process. A key problem in many abstraction scenarios is the transition from detailed activities in the initial model to coarse-grained activities in the abstract model. This transition is realized by an aggregation operation clustering multiple activities to a single one. So far, humans decide on how to aggregate, which is expensive. This paper presents a semi-automated approach to activity aggregation that reduces the human effort significantly. The approach takes advantage of an activity meronymy relation, i.e., part-of relation defined between activities. The approach is semi-automated, as it proposes sets of meaningful aggregations, while the user still decides. The approach is evaluated by a real-world use case.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Meronymy-Based Aggregation of Activities in Business Process Models

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Dijkman

Mendling

et al. 2010

Conceptual Modeling – ER 2010

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“…We further provide an authorization component, which allows to restrict process changes to authorized users, but without nullifying the advantages of a flexible PAIS by handling authorizations in a too rigid way [37]. Finally, we are investigating the concept of process views in connection with dynamic process changes [38]. Basic idea is to provide abstract views to users and to allow them to apply changes to these views and to propagate the view updates back to the underlying process.…”

Section: Concurrent Process Adaptationsmentioning

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Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems

Reichert

Rinderle-Ma

Dadam

2009

Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency II

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Abstract. Process-aware information systems (PAIS) must be able to deal with uncertainty, exceptional situations, and environmental changes. Needed business agility is often hindered by the lacking flexibility of existing PAIS. Once a process is implemented, its logic cannot be adapted or refined anymore. This often leads to rigid behavior or gaps between real-world processes and implemented ones. In response to this drawback, adaptive PAIS have emerged, which allow to dynamically adapt or evolve the structure of process models under execution. This paper deals with fundamental challenges related to structural process changes, discusses how existing approaches deal with them, and shows how the various problems have been exterminated in ADEPT2 change framework. We also survey existing approaches fostering flexible process support.

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“…While techniques and use cases of process model abstraction are well understood, e.g., [4,5,11,10,13,16], little is known about the relationships between process instances and abstract process models. Only a small share of the named BPMA approaches discusses the role of process instances [4,13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

State Propagation in Abstracted Business Processes

Smirnov

Farahani

Weske

2011

Service-Oriented Computing

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Bibliografische Information der Deutschen NationalbibliothekDie Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.de/ abrufbar. Abstract. Business process models are abstractions of concrete operational procedures that occur in the daily business of organizations. To cope with the complexity of these models, business process model abstraction has been introduced recently. Its goal is to derive from a detailed process model several abstract models that provide a high-level understanding of the process. While techniques for constructing abstract models are reported in the literature, little is known about the relationships between process instances and abstract models. In this paper we show how the state of an abstract activity can be calculated from the states of related, detailed process activities as they happen. The approach uses activity state propagation. With state uniqueness and state transition correctness we introduce formal properties that improve the understanding of state propagation. Algorithms to check these properties are devised. Finally, we use behavioral profiles to identify and classify behavioral inconsistencies in abstract process models that might occur, once activity state propagation is used. Universitätsverlag

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View-Based Process Visualization

Cited by 126 publications

References 8 publications

Meronymy-Based Aggregation of Activities in Business Process Models

Meronymy-Based Aggregation of Activities in Business Process Models

Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems

State Propagation in Abstracted Business Processes

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