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Artifact-Centric Business Process Models: Brief Survey of Research Results and Challenges

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A data-centric approach to business process and workflow modeling has been emerging over the past several years. This short paper presents a structured framework for a class of data-centric business process models, which are based on “business artifacts”. The paper provides a brief survey of research results on artifact-centric business process, and identifies a broad array of remaining research challenges.

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Hull, R. (2008). Artifact-Centric Business Process Models: Brief Survey of Research Results and Challenges. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008. OTM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88873-4_17

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