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Business process models are an important tool for business process management, used to specify, enact, and analyze organizations’ processes. Traditional process modeling languages are particularly well suited for highly structured, predictable processes but lead to complex models when faced with flexible data-centric processes such as knowledge-intensive ones. Different approaches address this gap. However, while data is central in many modeling languages for knowledge-intensive processes, the impact of a data model (containing classes, associations, and cardinalities) on the process behavior has not been investigated holistically. We extend the fragment-based Case Management (fCM) approach with data cardinalities and discuss the impact of cardinalities on process execution and analysis, as well as flexibility.
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Haarmann, S., Weske, M. (2020). Data Object Cardinalities in Flexible Business Processes. In: Del RĂo Ortega, A., Leopold, H., Santoro, F.M. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66498-5_28
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