Process model abstraction : a slider approach


Autoria(s): Polyvyanyy, Artem; Smirnov, Sergey; Weske, Mathias
Data(s)

2008

Resumo

Process models provide companies efficient means for managing their business processes. Tasks where process models are employed are different by nature and require models of various abstraction levels. However, maintaining several models of one business process involves a lot of synchronization effort and is erroneous. Business process model abstraction assumes a detailed model of a process to be available and derives coarse grained models from it. The task of abstraction is to tell significant model elements from insignificant ones and to reduce the latter. In this paper we argue that process model abstraction can be driven by different abstraction criteria. Criterion choice depends on a task which abstraction facilitates. We propose an abstraction slider - a mechanism that allows user control of the model abstraction level. We discuss examples of combining the slider with different abstraction criteria and sets of process model transformation rules.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/70724/

Publicador

IEEE

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/70724/1/70724_polyvyanyy_2014003436.pdf

DOI:10.1109/EDOC.2008.17

Polyvyanyy, Artem, Smirnov, Sergey, & Weske, Mathias (2008) Process model abstraction : a slider approach. In Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, IEEE, München, Germany, pp. 325-331.

Fonte

Science & Engineering Faculty

Palavras-Chave #080500 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING #080600 INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Tipo

Conference Paper