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Business process design by view integration

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Carlo SimonAuthors Info & Claims

BPM'06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Business Process Management Workshops

Pages 55 - 64

https://doi.org/10.1007/11837862_7

Published: 04 September 2006 Publication History

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Even though the design of business processes most often has to consolidate the knowledge of several process stakeholders, this fact is utilized only to a limited extent by existing modeling methodologies. We address this shortcoming in this paper by building an analogy between database schema design by view integration on the one hand and process modeling on the other hand. In particular, we specify a method for business process design by view integration starting from two views of a process as input. We identify formal semantic relationships between elements of the two process views which are then used to calculate the integrated process model applying the merge operator. Finally, the integrated model is optimized using reduction rules. A case study with two EPC business process models from the SAP reference model demonstrates the applicability of our approach.

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BPM'06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Business Process Management Workshops

September 2006

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Johann Eder
Dept. of Knowledge and Business Engineering, University of Vienna, Rathausstrasse 19/9, Vienna, Austria
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Schahram Dustdar
Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Rathausstrasse 19/9, Vienna, Austria

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