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Working with Process Abstraction Levels

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Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2016)

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Abstract

The hierarchical abstraction used in business process modeling is a strong feature which requires careful application by analysts in order to take the advantage of the benefits it brings. Failing in this case may not only bring headache to the analysts, when trying to manage the complexity of the created model, but also turn the whole created business process model useless. In this paper we look at research that has been done in the field of the business process abstraction level management according to which we review and extend the Methodology for Modeling and Analysis of Business Processes (MMABP). Eventually we discuss the benefits the extended MMABP brings compared to the current state-of-the-art.

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    In fact, there is the only way how to include all processes into one model using BPMN: to subordinate all the processes to the one of them as sub-processes. This idea however absolutely contradicts with the main idea of the Process Management, and thus it is not relevant anyway.

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The paper was processed with contribution of long term institutional support of research activities by Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, Department of Information Technologies, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

    Oleg Svatoš & Václav Řepa

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Svatoš, O., Řepa, V. (2016). Working with Process Abstraction Levels. In: Řepa, V., Bruckner, T. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 261. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45321-7_5

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