Künzle, Vera and Weber, Barbara and Reichert, Manfred (2011) Object-aware Business Processes: Fundamental Requirements and their Support in Existing Approaches. International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), 2 (2). pp. 19-46. ISSN 1947-8186
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Abstract
Despite the increasing maturity of process management technology not all business processes are adequately supported by it. In particular, support for unstructured and knowledge-intensive processes is missing, especially since they cannot be straight-jacketed into predefined activities. A common characteristic of these processes is the role of business objects and data as drivers for process modeling and enactment. This paper elicits fundamental requirements for effectively supporting such object-aware processes; i.e., their modeling, execution and monitoring. Based on these requirements, we evaluate imperative, declarative, and data-driven process support approaches and investigate how well they support object-aware processes. We consider a tight integration of process and data as major step towards further maturation of process management technology.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Process-aware Information Systems, Object-aware Process Management, Data-driven Process Execution |
Subjects: | DBIS Research > Publications |
Depositing User: | Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert |
Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2011 12:22 |
Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2011 10:28 |
URI: | http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/721 |