1. Viewpoints on Business Process Models
- Author
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Giorgio Bruno
- Subjects
Life Cycles ,Process management ,Computer science ,Orchestration ,Business process modeling ,Viewpoints ,Roles ,Orchestration, Human Tasks, Business Entities, Artifacts, Life Cycles, Roles, Dataflow Models, Information Models ,Dataflow Models ,Information Models ,Information model ,Human Tasks ,Orchestration (computing) ,Artifacts ,Business Entities - Abstract
Over the past few years, a number of viewpoints have influenced the design of notations for business processes. They emphasize the different elements (tasks, business entities, and roles) that compose business process models; for this reason, they are referred to as activity-centric, data-centric, and role-centric viewpoints. The activity-centric viewpoint focuses on the orchestration of operational activities, which encompass human tasks and automatic ones. On the contrary, the data-centric viewpoint stresses the identification of the key business entities and their lifecycles consisting of states and transitions. In the role-centric viewpoint, a process model is made up of several “role” models; each role model provides a restricted view of the process limited to the behavior of the role under consideration. This chapter illustrates how the above-mentioned viewpoints can be extracted from a global model, with the help of an example concerning the submission of papers to conferences.
- Published
- 2019