On the Duality of Information-Centric and Activity-Centric Models of Business Processes Export

@incollection{citeulike:3279474, 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.}, author = {Kumaran, Santhosh and Liu, Rong and Wu, Frederick}, booktitle = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering }, chapter = {3}, citeulike-article-id = {3279474}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_3}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/a837212173812011}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_3}, journal = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering}, keywords = {activity, bpm}, pages = {32--47}, posted-at = {2009-05-26 15:02:17}, priority = {2}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, title = {On the Duality of Information-Centric and Activity-Centric Models of Business Processes}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_3}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:3279474 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3279474 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. JF - Advanced Information Systems Engineering SE - Lecture Notes in Computer Science EP - 47 TI - On the Duality of Information-Centric and Activity-Centric Models of Business Processes T2 - Advanced Information Systems Engineering SP - 32 KW - activity KW - bpm AU - Kumaran, Santhosh AU - Liu, Rong AU - Wu, Frederick PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_3 ER -