TY - GEN
T1 - On the duality of information-centric and activity-centric models of business processes
AU - Kumaran, Santhosh
AU - Liu, Rong
AU - Wu, Frederick Y.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Most of the work in modeling business processes is activity-centric. Recently, an information-centric approach to business process modeling has emerged, where a business process is modeled as the interacting life cycles of information entities. The benefits of this approach are documented in a number of case studies. The goal of this paper is to formalize the information-centric approach and derive the relationships between the two approaches. We do this by formally defining the notion of a business entity from first principles and using this definition to derive an algorithm that generates an information-centric process model from an activity-centric model. We illustrate the two models using a real-world business process and provide an analysis of the respective strengths and weaknesses of the two modeling approaches.
AB - Most of the work in modeling business processes is activity-centric. Recently, an information-centric approach to business process modeling has emerged, where a business process is modeled as the interacting life cycles of information entities. The benefits of this approach are documented in a number of case studies. The goal of this paper is to formalize the information-centric approach and derive the relationships between the two approaches. We do this by formally defining the notion of a business entity from first principles and using this definition to derive an algorithm that generates an information-centric process model from an activity-centric model. We illustrate the two models using a real-world business process and provide an analysis of the respective strengths and weaknesses of the two modeling approaches.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:45849109182
SN - 3540695338
SN - 9783540695332
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 32
EP - 47
BT - Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 20th International Conference, CAiSE 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2008
Y2 - 16 June 2008 through 20 June 2008
ER -