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Despite the recent advances in the area of Business Process Management (BPM), today’s business processes have largely been implemented without clearly defined conceptual modeling. This results in growing difficulties for identification, maintenance, and reuse of rules, processes, and control-flow patterns. To mitigate these problems in future implementations, we propose a new approach to business process modeling using conceptual schemas, which represent hierarchies of concepts for rules and processes shared among collaborating information systems. This methodology bridges the gap between conceptual model description and identification of actual control-flow patterns for workflow implementation. We identify modeling guidelines that are characterized by clear phase separation, step-by-step execution, and process building through diagrams and tables. The separation of business process modeling in seven mutually exclusive phases clearly delimits information technology from business expertise. The sequential execution of these phases leads to the step-by-step creation of complex control-flow graphs. The process model is refined through intuitive table and diagram generation in each phase. Not only does the rigorous application of our modeling framework minimize the impact of rule and process changes, but it also facilitates the identification and maintenance of control-flow patterns in BPM-based information system architectures.
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Zuliane, D., Oikawa, M.K., Malkowski, S., Alcazar, J.P., Ferreira, J.E. (2009). The RiverFish Approach to Business Process Modeling: Linking Business Steps to Control-Flow Patterns. In: Bertino, E., Joshi, J.B.D. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2008. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_14
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