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Combining Information and Activities in Business Processes

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2012)

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This paper presents a notation, Chant, aimed at integrating the activity-centric perspective and the data-centric one in the domain of business processes. Chant process models provide a network-oriented structure in which the tasks, the choice blocks and the flow handlers are the nodes and their interconnections represent the information flows. The companion information models define the structure of the business entities: they place emphasis on mandatory attributes and associations so as to enable the readers to easily understand the effects brought about by the tasks.

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  1. Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Giorgio Bruno

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  1. Marriott School,, Brigham Young University, 784 TNRB, 84602, Provo, UT, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  2. Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Klaus-Dieter Schewe

  3. Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 9-11/188, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    A Min Tjoa

  4. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

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Bruno, G. (2012). Combining Information and Activities in Business Processes. In: Liddle, S.W., Schewe, KD., Tjoa, A.M., Zhou, X. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7447. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32597-7_43

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