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Business data are usually managed by means of business processes during process instances. These viewpoints (business, instances and data) are strongly related because the life-cycle of business data objects need to be aligned with the business process and process instance models. However, current approaches do not provide a mechanism to integrate these three viewpoints nor to query them all together while maintaining the information in the distributed, heterogeneous systems where they have been created. In this paper, we propose the integration of the business process, business process instance, and business data models by using their metamodels and also an architecture to support this integration. The goal of this integration is to make the most of the three models and the technologies that support them in an isolated way. In our approach, it is not necessary to change the source data formats nor transforming them into a common one. Furthermore, the proposed architecture allows us to query the three models even though they come from three different technologies.
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This work has been partially funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain (TIN2015-63502-C3-2-R, TIN2013-40848-R and TIN2016-75394-R) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF/FEDER).
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Gómez-López, M.T., Reina Quintero, A.M., Parody, L., Pérez Álvarez, J.M., Reichert, M. (2018). An Architecture for Querying Business Process, Business Process Instances, and Business Data Models. In: Teniente, E., Weidlich, M. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 308. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74030-0_60
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