TY - GEN
T1 - Batch Regions
T2 - 18th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2014
AU - Pufahl, Luise
AU - Meyer, Andreas
AU - Weske, Mathias
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/12/2
Y1 - 2014/12/2
N2 - Business process automation improves organizations' efficiency to perform work. In existing business process management systems, process instances run independently from each other. However, synchronizing instances carrying similar characteristics, i.e., sharing the same data, can reduce process execution costs. For example, if an online retailer receives two orders from one customer, there is a chance that they can be packed and shipped together to save shipment costs. In this paper, we extend the concept of batch activities to batch regions consisting of a set of connected activities instead of a single activity. Further, we use concepts from the database domain and introduce data views to business processes to distinguish process instances which can be synchronized. We also evaluate the concepts introduced in this paper with a case study comparing costs for normal and batch processing.
AB - Business process automation improves organizations' efficiency to perform work. In existing business process management systems, process instances run independently from each other. However, synchronizing instances carrying similar characteristics, i.e., sharing the same data, can reduce process execution costs. For example, if an online retailer receives two orders from one customer, there is a chance that they can be packed and shipped together to save shipment costs. In this paper, we extend the concept of batch activities to batch regions consisting of a set of connected activities instead of a single activity. Further, we use concepts from the database domain and introduce data views to business processes to distinguish process instances which can be synchronized. We also evaluate the concepts introduced in this paper with a case study comparing costs for normal and batch processing.
KW - BPM
KW - batch processing
KW - data view
KW - process instance grouping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937430470&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EDOC.2014.29
DO - 10.1109/EDOC.2014.29
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84937430470
T3 - Proceedings . IEEE 18th international Enterprise Distributed object computing conference
SP - 150
EP - 159
BT - Proceedings - IEEE 18th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2014
A2 - Reichert, Manfred
A2 - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
A2 - Grossmann, Georg
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 3 September 2014 through 5 September 2014
ER -