On the duality of information-centric and activity-centric models of business processes Conference

Kumaran, S, Liu, R, Wu, FY. (2008). On the duality of information-centric and activity-centric models of business processes . LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 5074 LNCS 32-47. 10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_3

cited authors

  • Kumaran, S; Liu, R; Wu, FY

authors

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. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

publication date

  • July 2, 2008

published in

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 32

end page

  • 47

volume

  • 5074 LNCS