A Data-Centric Design Methodology for Business Processes

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Author(s): Kamal Bhattacharya (IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA), Richard Hull (IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA)and Jianwen Su (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 29
Source title: Handbook of Research on Business Process Modeling
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jorge Cardoso (SAP Research, Germany)and Wil van der Aalst (Technische Universitat Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-288-6.ch023

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Information Systems / Business Process Management / Business Science Reference

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This chapter describes a design methodology for business processes and workflows that focuses first on “business artifacts”, which represent key (real or conceptual) business entities, including both the business-relevant data about them and their macro-level lifecycles. Individual workflow services (a.k.a. tasks) are then incorporated, by specifying how they operate on the artifacts and fit into their lifecycles. The resulting workflow is specified in a particular artifact-centric workflow model, which is introduced using an extended example. At the logical level this workflow model is largely declarative, in contrast with most traditional workflow models which are procedural and/or graph-based. The chapter includes a discussion of how the declarative, artifact-centric workflow specification can be mapped into an optimized physical realization.

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