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Efficacy-Aware Business Process Modeling

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 (OTM 2012)

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Abstract

In business process design, business objective models can fulfill the role of formal requirement definitions. Matching process models against objective models would, for instance, enable sound comparison of implementation alternatives. For that purpose, objective models should be available independently of their concrete implementation in a business process. This issue is not addressed by common business process management concepts yet. Moreover, process models are currently not sufficiently expressive to determine business process efficacy in the sense of fulfilling a business objective. Therefore, this paper develops and integrates constructs required for efficacy-aware process modeling and apt to extend common modeling approaches. The concept is illustrated with a sample scenario. Overall, it serves as an enabler for progressive applications like automated process optimization.

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  1. Databases and Information Systems Institute, Ulm University, Germany

    Matthias Lohrmann & Manfred Reichert

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Semantic Technology and Application Research Laboratory (STARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building G-10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. Research Centre for Automatic Control, School of Engineering in Information Technology, University of Lorraine, CNRS, Campus scientifique, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

  5. Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm University, Germany

    Peter Dadam

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

    Xiaofang Zhou

  7. HP Labs, Bristol, UK

    Siani Pearson

  8. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Alois Ferscha

  9. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Sonia Bergamaschi

  10. ADVIS Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Isabel F. Cruz

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Lohrmann, M., Reichert, M. (2012). Efficacy-Aware Business Process Modeling. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012. OTM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33606-5_4

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