Modeling service-flow

  • Authors:
  • Ralf Klischewski;Ingrid Wetzel;Ali Baharami

  • Affiliations:
  • Hamburg University, Department for Informatics/Software Engineering Vogt-Kölln -Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany;Hamburg University, Department for Informatics/Software Engineering Vogt-Kölln -Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany;Boeing Mathematics & Computing Technology, Seattle WA

  • Venue:
  • ISTA '01 Proceedings of the 2001 international conference on Information systems technology and its applications - Volume P-2
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

As e-business is invading the service industry and the public sector, there is a need for a service-flow management of those processes, which consist of a sequence of interrelated sub-services. Making use of the potentials of internet applications, service-flow management aims at providing these service in an efficient manner, at improving customer relationship management in the field of tension between routine and situated/personalized service provision, and at providing flexible IT support for service providers and/or clients at each service point. Based on object oriented, workflow and user oriented modeling techniques, we model service-flow patterns by identifying sequences of service points, each capturing the specific service tasks and their respective pre- and post-conditions from the provider's point of view. This service-flow modeling approach may be supported by the modeling tools Visio® and Process@Work. We present some results from two cases of service-flow modeling, each with a short ease description and a discussion of the models' application for technical and organizational development.