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Serialization of Lifecycles in ACBP Model as Regular Expressions

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Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2018)

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Dictated by government regulations and user requirements, organizations are driven to change their business process continuously. The task of understanding current business process is one of the key stages in a business process improvement project. In Artifact-Centric Business Process (ACBP) modeling paradigm, figuring out the relationships between lifecycles is important to understanding the whole business process. To improve the efficiency of com-prehending the relationships, we serialize lifecycles of an ACBP model as regular expressions. By serializing the lifecycles, its presentation is transformed from graph to string, so that multiple lifecycles can be presented simultaneously. Combined with text searching and highlighting techniques, ad-hoc query and analysis can be implemented easily. From the experiment result, the efficiency of figuring out relationships between lifecycles is greatly improved in terms of time cost and accuracy.

This research has been financially supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFB0309800), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61702094), the Young Scientists’ Sailing Project of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipal (No. 17YF1427400) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 17D111206).

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    Junbao Zhang, Guohua Liu & Zhao Chen

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Zhang, J., Liu, G., Chen, Z. (2018). Serialization of Lifecycles in ACBP Model as Regular Expressions. In: Sun, X., Pan, Z., Bertino, E. (eds) Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11064. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00009-7_14

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