Inventing Less, Reusing More, and Adding Intelligence to Business Process Modeling

Authors:
Lucinéia H. Thom;Manfred Reichert;Carolina M. Chiao;Cirano Iochpe;Guillermo N. Hess
Affiliations:
Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm, Ulm, Germany D-89069;Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm, Ulm, Germany D-89069;Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 91501-970;Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 91501-970;Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 91501-970
Venue:
DEXA '08 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Recently, a variety of workflow patterns has been proposed focusing on specific aspects like control flow, data flow, and resource assignments. Though these patterns are relevant for implementing Business Process Modeling (BPM) tools and for evaluating the expressiveness of BPM languages, they do not contribute to reduce redundant specifications of recurrent business functions when modeling business processes. Furthermore, contemporary BPM tools do not support process designers in defining, querying, and reusing activity patterns as building blocks for process modeling. Related to these problems this paper proposes a set of activity patterns, evidences their practical relevance, and introduces a BPM tool for the modeling of business processes based on the reuse of these activity patterns. Altogether our approach fosters reuse of business function specifications and helps to improve the quality and comparability of business process models.