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International Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support

International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods of Systems Analysis and Development

BPMDS 2017, EMMSAD 2017: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling pp 85–100Cite as

Requirements Framework for Batch Processing in Business Processes

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 287))

Abstract

Business process automation improves organizations’ efficiency. In existing systems for business process automation, process instances run independently from each other. However, synchronizing instances for particular activities in a business process can reduce process execution costs. Only a few works exist to enable the so-called batch processing in business processes, which also lack a complete understanding of requirements. This paper provides a requirements analysis based on a literature review and real-world scenarios, taken from different domains. The resulting requirements framework gives an overview of aspects which need to be considered when developing a concept to integrate batch processing into business processes. Further, it fosters the comparison of existing solutions. The application of the framework shows that current approaches could be extended in terms of flexibility, user involvement, and multi-process support.

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    http://wiki.processmaker.com/3.0/Batch_Routing.

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    Luise Pufahl & Mathias Weske

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  1. University of Haifa , Haifa, Israel

    Iris Reinhartz-Berger

  2. University of Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

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  3. Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Paris, France

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  4. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

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  5. Saint Louis University , St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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Pufahl, L., Weske, M. (2017). Requirements Framework for Batch Processing in Business Processes. In: Reinhartz-Berger, I., Gulden, J., Nurcan, S., Guédria, W., Bera, P. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 287. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59466-8_6

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