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A Modeling Paradigm for Integrating Processes and Data at the Micro Level

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2011, EMMSAD 2011)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 81))

Abstract

Despite the widespread adoption of BPM, there exist many business processes not adequately supported by existing BPM technology. In previous work we reported on the properties of these processes. As a major insight we learned that, in accordance to the data model comprising object types and object relations, the modeling and execution of processes can be based on two levels of granularity: object behavior and object interactions. This paper focuses on micro processes capturing object behavior and constituting a fundamental pillar of our framework for object-aware process management. Our approach applies the well established concept of modeling object behavior in terms of states and state transitions. Opposed to existing work, we establish a mapping between attribute values and objects states to ensure compliance between them. Finally, we provide a well-defined operational semantics enabling the automatic and dynamic generation of most end-user components at run-time (e.g., overview tables and user forms).

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  1. Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm University, Germany

    Vera Künzle & Manfred Reichert

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  1. INTI International University, Malaysia

    Terry Halpin

  2. IAE de Paris Sorbonne Graduate Business School, 21, rue Broca, 75005, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

  4. MIS Department, Faculty of Social Science, Haifa University, Carmel Mountain, 35901, Haifa, Israel

    Pnina Soffer

  5. CRP Henri Tudor, 1855, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

    Erik Proper

  6. HTW-Aalen, 73430, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  7. IbisSoft AB, Box 19567, SE-10432, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilia Bider

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Künzle, V., Reichert, M. (2011). A Modeling Paradigm for Integrating Processes and Data at the Micro Level. In: Halpin, T., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2011 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 81. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_15

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