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- Bergholtz, Maria, et al.
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A pattern and dependency based approach to the design of process models
- 2004
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In: CONCEPTUAL MODELING. - BERLIN : SPRINGER. - 3540237232 ; , s. 724-739
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper an approach for building process models for e-commerce is proposed. It is based on the assumption that the process modeling task can be methodologically supported by a designers assistant. Such a foundation provides justifications, expressible in business terms, for design decisions made in process modeling, thereby facilitating communication between systems designers and business users. Two techniques are utilized in the designers assistant, namely process patterns and action dependencies. A process pattern is a generic template for a set of interrelated activities between two agents, while an action dependency expresses a sequential relationship between two activities.
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- Bergholtz, Maria, et al.
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Modelling institutional, communicative and physical domains in agent oriented information systems
- 2004
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In: Lect Notes Artif Intell. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ; , s. 189-205
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- One role of a business system is to provide a representation of a Universe of Discourse, which reflects its structure and behaviour. An equally important function of the system is to support communication within an organisation, by structuring and co-ordinating the actions performed by the organisation's agents. These two roles of a business system may be represented in terms of business and process models, i.e. separating the declarative aspects from the procedural control flow aspects of the system. Although this separation of concerns has many advantages, the differences in representation techniques and focus of the two model types constitute a problem in itself. Abstracting business semantics out of, for instance, technical messaging protocols poses severe problems for business analysts. The main contribution of this paper is a unified framework based on agent oriented concepts for facilitating analysis and integration of business models and process models in a systematic way. The approach suggested bridges the gap between the declarative and social/ economic aspects of a business model and the procedural and communicative aspects of a process model in a technology independent manner. We illustrate how our approach can simplify business and process models integration, process specification, process pattern interpretation and process choreography.
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- Jayaweera, Prasad M., 1967-
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A Unified Framework for e-Commerce Systems Development : Business Process Pattern Perspective
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In electronic commerce, systems development is based on two fundamental types of models, business models and process models. A business model is concerned with value exchanges among business partners, while a process model focuses on operational and procedural aspects of business communication. Thus, a business model defines the what in an e-commerce system, while a process model defines the how. Business process design can be facilitated and improved by a method for systematically moving from a business model to a process model. Such a method would provide support for traceability, evaluation of design alternatives, and seamless transition from analysis to realization. This work proposes a unified framework that can be used as a basis to analyze, to interpret and to understand different concepts associated at different stages in e-Commerce system development. In this thesis, we illustrate how UN/CEFACT’s recommended metamodels for business and process design can be analyzed, extended and then integrated for the final solutions based on the proposed unified framework. Also, as an application of the framework, we demonstrate how process-modeling tasks can be facilitated in e-Commerce system design. The proposed methodology, called BP3 stands for Business Process Patterns Perspective. The BP3 methodology uses a question-answer interface to capture different business requirements from the designers. It is based on pre-defined process patterns, and the final solution is generated by applying the captured business requirements by means of a set of production rules to complete the inter-process communication among these patterns.
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- Shahzad, Khurram, et al.
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Elicitation of Requirements for a Business Process Model Repository
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In: BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ; , s. 44-55
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Today, there exist a number of process repositories with the aim of supporting the reuse of process models. Designing such repositories is a complex task, which should be guided by clear requirements. In order to support the development of future process repositories, we propose and justify a set of requirements for such repositories. These requirements are based on a number of essential properties of process repositories as well as a set of use cases. Furthermore, we carry out a Survey and evaluation of a number of existing repositories based on the requirements identified in this paper.
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