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Transforming Activity-Centric Business Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions

Transforming Activity-Centric Business Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions

Rong Liu, Frederick Y. Wu, Santhosh Kumaran
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 21 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 21
ISSN: 1063-8016|EISSN: 1533-8010|EISBN13: 9781613502242|DOI: 10.4018/jdm.2010100102
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Liu, Rong, et al. "Transforming Activity-Centric Business Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions." JDM vol.21, no.4 2010: pp.14-34. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdm.2010100102

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Liu, R., Wu, F. Y., & Kumaran, S. (2010). Transforming Activity-Centric Business Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions. Journal of Database Management (JDM), 21(4), 14-34. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdm.2010100102

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Liu, Rong, Frederick Y. Wu, and Santhosh Kumaran. "Transforming Activity-Centric Business Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions," Journal of Database Management (JDM) 21, no.4: 14-34. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdm.2010100102

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Abstract

Much of the prior work in business process modeling is activity-centric. Recently, an information-centric approach has emerged, where a business process is modeled as the interacting lifecycles of business entities. The benefits of this approach are documented in a number of case studies. In this paper, the authors formalize the information-centric approach and derive the relationships between the two approaches. The authors formally define the notion of a business entity, provide an algorithm to transform an activity-centric model into an information-centric process model, and demonstrate the equivalence between these two models. Further, they show the value of transforming from the activity-centric paradigm to the information-centric paradigm in business process componentization and Service-Oriented Architecture design and also provide an empirical evaluation.

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