Transforming activity-centric business process models into information-centric models for SOA solutions

Rong Liu, Frederick Y. Wu, Santhosh Kumaran

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14-34
Number of pages21
JournalJournal of Database Management
Volume21
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2010

Keywords

  • Activity-Centric Process Model
  • Business Entity
  • Business Process
  • Information-Centric Process Model
  • SOA Solutions
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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