Structuring acyclic process models
- This article studies the problem of transforming a process model with an arbitrary topology into an equivalent well-structured process model. While this problem has received significant attention, there is still no full characterization of the class of unstructured process models that can be transformed into well-structured ones, nor an automated method for structuring any process model that belongs to this class. This article fills this gap in the context of acyclic process models. The article defines a necessary and sufficient condition for an unstructured acyclic process model to have an equivalent well-structured process model under fully concurrent bisimulation, as well as a complete structuring method. The method has been implemented as a tool that takes process models captured in the BPMN and EPC notations as input. The article also reports on an empirical evaluation of the structuring method using a repository of process models from commercial practice.
Verfasserangaben: | Artem Polyvyanyy, Luciano Garcia-Banuelos, Marlon Dumas |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2011.10.005 |
ISSN: | 0306-4379 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Information systems |
Verlag: | Elsevier |
Verlagsort: | Oxford |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2012 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2012 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 26.03.2017 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Model equivalence; Modular decomposition; Petri net unfolding; Process modeling; Structured modeling; Structuring |
Band: | 37 |
Ausgabe: | 6 |
Seitenanzahl: | 21 |
Erste Seite: | 518 |
Letzte Seite: | 538 |
Fördernde Institution: | ERDF via the Estonian Center of Excellence in Computer Science; Estonian Science Foundation |
Organisationseinheiten: | An-Institute / Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH |
Peer Review: | Referiert |