Paper Info
Title
AMFIBIA: A Meta-Model for the Integration of Business Process Modelling Aspects
Abstract
AMFIBIA is a meta-model that formalizes the essential as- pects and concepts of business process modelling. Though AMFIBIA is not the first approach to formalizing the aspects and concepts of busi- ness process modelling, it is more ambitious in the following respects: First, it is independent from particular modelling formalisms of busi- ness processes and it is designed in such a way that any formalisms for modelling some aspect of a business process can be plugged into AM- FIBIA. Therefore, AMFIBIA is formalism-independent. Second it is not biased toward any aspect of business process and the dierent aspects can be, basically, considered and modelled independently of each other. Moreover, it is not restricted to a fixed set of aspects; further aspects of business processes can be easily integrated. Third, AMFIBIA does not only name and relate the concepts of business process modelling, as it is typically done in ontologies or architectures for business process modelling. Rather, AMFIBIA also captures the interaction among the dierent aspects and concepts, and therefore fully defines the dynamic behaviour of a business process model, with its dierent aspects modelled in dierent notations. To prove this claim, we implemented a prototype of a formalism-independent workflow engine based on AMFIBIA: This workflow engine, also called AMFIBIA, is open for new aspects of busi- ness process modelling and new modelling formalisms can be added to it. In this paper, we will present AMFIBIA and the prototype workflow engine based on this meta-model and discuss the principles and concepts of its design.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2006
The Role of Business Processes in Service Oriented Architectures
business process modelling,business process,business process model,process modelling,meta model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Artifact-centric business process model,Business process management,Business process,Software engineering,Computer science,Business process modeling,Workflow engine,Workflow,Workflow management system,Business Process Model and Notation,Management science
Conference
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.87
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ekkart Kindler11219105.52
Björn Axenath2121.55
Vladimir Rubin328613.57