On the duality of information-centric and activity-centric models of business processes

Santhosh Kumaran, Rong Liu, Frederick Y. Wu

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Information Systems Engineering - 20th International Conference, CAiSE 2008, Proceedings
Pages32-47
Number of pages16
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2008 - Montpellier, France
Duration: 16 Jun 200820 Jun 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5074 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2008
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMontpellier
Period16/06/0820/06/08

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