TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling business contexture and behavior using business artifacts
AU - Liu, Rong
AU - Bhattacharya, Kamal
AU - Wu, Frederick Y.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Traditional process modeling approaches focus on the activities needed to achieve a business goal. However, these approaches often pose obstacles in consolidating processes across an organization because they fail to capture the informational structure pertinent to the business context or contexture. In this paper, we discuss business artifact-centered operational modeling. Artifacts capture the contexture of a business and operational models describe how a business goal is achieved by acting upon the business artifact. Business artifacts, such as Purchase Order or Insurance Claim, provide business analysts an additional dimension to model their business. With operational models, they can describe how a business operates by processing business artifacts and adding business value to the artifacts. This approach has been successfully employed in a variety of customer engagements. We summarize our best practices by describing nine operational patterns. Furthermore, we develop a computational model for operational models based on Petri Nets to enable formal analysis and verification thereof.
AB - Traditional process modeling approaches focus on the activities needed to achieve a business goal. However, these approaches often pose obstacles in consolidating processes across an organization because they fail to capture the informational structure pertinent to the business context or contexture. In this paper, we discuss business artifact-centered operational modeling. Artifacts capture the contexture of a business and operational models describe how a business goal is achieved by acting upon the business artifact. Business artifacts, such as Purchase Order or Insurance Claim, provide business analysts an additional dimension to model their business. With operational models, they can describe how a business operates by processing business artifacts and adding business value to the artifacts. This approach has been successfully employed in a variety of customer engagements. We summarize our best practices by describing nine operational patterns. Furthermore, we develop a computational model for operational models based on Petri Nets to enable formal analysis and verification thereof.
KW - Business artifacts
KW - Business behavior
KW - Business contexture
KW - Operational modeling
KW - Operational patterns
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-72988-4_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-72988-4_23
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37649012775
SN - 9783540729877
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 324
EP - 339
BT - Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 19th International Conference, CAiSE 2007, Proceedings
T2 - 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2007
Y2 - 11 June 2007 through 15 June 2007
ER -