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Transforming Activity-Centric Business Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions

Transforming Activity-Centric Business Process Models into Information-Centric Models for SOA Solutions
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Author(s): Rong Liu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA), Frederick Y. Wu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)and Santhosh Kumaran (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 23
Source title: Cross-Disciplinary Models and Applications of Database Management: Advancing Approaches
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Keng Siau (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-471-0.ch014

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Abstract

Much of the prior work in business process modeling is activity-centric. Recently, an information-centric approach has emerged, where a business process is modeled as the interacting lifecycles of business entities. The benefits of this approach are documented in a number of case studies. In this paper, the authors formalize the information-centric approach and derive the relationships between the two approaches. The authors formally define the notion of a business entity, provide an algorithm to transform an activity-centric model into an information-centric process model, and demonstrate the equivalence between these two models. Further, they show the value of transforming from the activity-centric paradigm to the information-centric paradigm in business process componentization and Service-Oriented Architecture design and also provide an empirical evaluation.

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