TY - JOUR
T1 - Transforming activity-centric business process models into information-centric models for SOA solutions
AU - Liu, Rong
AU - Wu, Frederick Y.
AU - Kumaran, Santhosh
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Activity-Centric Process Model
KW - Business Entity
KW - Business Process
KW - Information-Centric Process Model
KW - SOA Solutions
KW - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
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U2 - 10.4018/jdm.2010100102
DO - 10.4018/jdm.2010100102
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953124475
SN - 1063-8016
VL - 21
SP - 14
EP - 34
JO - Journal of Database Management
JF - Journal of Database Management
IS - 4
ER -