- Title
- Reusing artifact-centric business process models : a behavioral consistent specialization approach
- Creator
- Yongchareon, Sira; Liu, Chengfei; Zhao, Xiaohui
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/173368
- Identifier
- vital:14684
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-020-00798-6
- Identifier
- ISBN:0010-485X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Process reuse is one of the important research areas that address efficiency issues in business process modeling. Similar to software reuse, business processes should be able to be componentized and specialized in order to enable flexible process expansion and customization. Current activity/control-flow centric workflow modeling approaches face difficulty in supporting highly flexible process reuse, limited by their procedural nature. In comparison, the emerging artifact-centric workflow modeling approach well fits into these reuse requirements. Beyond the classic class level reuse in existing object-oriented approaches, process reuse faces the challenge of handling synchronization dependencies among artifact lifecycles as parts of a business process. In this article, we propose a theoretical framework for business process specialization that comprises an artifact-centric business process model, a set of methods to design and construct a specialized business process model from a base model, and a set of behavioral consistency criteria to help check the consistency between the two process models. © 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Relation
- Computing Vol. 102, no. 8 (2020), p. 1843-1879
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Part of Springer Nature.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 01 Mathematical Sciences; 08 Information and Computing Sciences; Artifact-centric process modeling; Behavioral consistency; Business process modeling; Business process reuse; Process specialization
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