Paper Info
Title
Artefact-centric business process configuration
Abstract
AbstractCurrently, there are two mainstream process modelling paradigms: the traditional activity-centric approach and the recent artefact-centric approach. Several approaches have been proposed for configuration of traditional activity-centric business processes; however, to the best of our knowledge, few approaches have been developed for artefact-centric business processes. This paper fills this gap by proposing a novel configuration approach for artefact-centric business processes. The configuration of artefact-centric process modelling is achieved by the configuration of artefact lifecycle models for all the involved artefact classes. First, we apply deterministic finite automaton to formalise an artefact lifecycle model ALM. To derive configurable ALM, we propose merger operation for ALMs. Also, an artefact lifecycle graph ALG is proposed to describe ALM as a state diagram, and the structural soundness of ALG is also presented. Then, we propose configurable artefact lifecycle graph C-ALG to describe the configurable artefact lifecycle model, in which arcs and sets of business rules can be defined to be configurable points. Finally, by configuring C-ALGs for each artefact class with our individualisation algorithm, structurally sound artefact lifecycle models are derived including data models of artefacts, associated services and business rules, thus resulting a complete configured artefact-centric process model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1504/IJHPCN.2016.074661
Periodicals
Field
DocType
Volume
Data modeling,Business process,Computer science,Deterministic finite automaton,Process modeling,State diagram,Soundness,Business process modeling,Business rule,Distributed computing
Journal
9
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1/2
1740-0562
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
20
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kang, G.1295.56
Liqin Yang221.07
Wei Xu332938.14
Zhaoyang Tian410.36
Liang Zhang546492.08