Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects

  • Authors:
  • Marcello Rosa;Marlon Dumas;Arthur H. Hofstede;Jan Mendling;Florian Gottschalk

  • Affiliations:
  • Queensland University of Technology, Australia;Queensland University of Technology, Australia and University of Tartu, Estonia;Queensland University of Technology, Australia;Queensland University of Technology, Australia;Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ER '08 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A configurable process model is an integrated representation of multiple variants of a business process. It is designed to be individualized to meet a particular set of requirements. As such, configurable process models promote systematic reuse of proven or common practices. Existing notations for configurable process modeling focus on capturing tasks and control-flow dependencies, neglecting equally important aspects of business processes such as data flow, material flow and resource management. This paper fills this gap by proposing an integrated meta-model for configurable processes with advanced features for capturing resources involved in the performance of tasks (through task-role associations) as well as flow of data and physical artifacts (through task-object associations). Although embodied as an extension of a popular process modeling notation, namely EPC, the meta-model is defined in an abstract and formal manner to make it applicable to other notations.