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Modelling Inter-Process Dependencies with High-Level Business Process Modelling Languages
Grossmann, G., Schrefl, M. and Stumptner, M.
The work presented in this paper targets the software
integration on the level of business process models.
The goal is to create the behavioural description
of an integrated system that is consistent with
the behavioural descriptions of the original local systems
intended to be integrated. We build the behavioural
description from existing models of the local
systems by inserting dependencies between them.
By this means, simulation and verification of interactions
between them is possible and incompatibilities
can be identified at an early stage before a new
system is introduced. So far, business process modelling
languages have mainly focused on a single application
system although B2B and enterprise application
integration demand on models to express cross
organisational communication and inter-process dependencies.
In this paper, we investigate commonly
used business process languages on their suitability to
model inter-process dependencies. The result shows
that there is no language which supports all identified
dependencies directly and that all languages demand
from the modeller to consider their low-level semantics
which prevent him from focusing on the design.
We propose a set of extensions of UML 2.0 Activity
Diagrams to overcome these limits. |
Cite as: Grossmann, G., Schrefl, M. and Stumptner, M. (2008). Modelling Inter-Process Dependencies with High-Level Business Process Modelling Languages. In Proc. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2008), Wollongong, NSW, Australia. CRPIT, 79. Hinze, A. and Kirchberg, M., Eds. ACS. 89-102. |
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