TY - GEN
T1 - From instance spanning models to instance spanning rules
AU - Gall, Manuel
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Instance Spanning Constraints (ISCs) allow to control the behavior of multiple business processes and their instances which is crucial in many application domains (e.g., for process synchronization). The modeling and visualization of ISCs hence constitutes an essential brick in process compliance management. Currently, no approach exists for representing a set of Instance Spanning Rules (ISRs) based on an ISC. Existing work rather focuses on visualizing ISCs at the more abstract Instance Spanning Model (ISM) level. However, the gap between the ISM and the ISR level must be bridged in order to enable the enactment of an ISC at process level. Hence, this paper collects requirements for the implementation of ISRs through an ISM, e.g., by specification of data elements. Based on the requirements an existing visual modeling language is tailored towards the modeling of ISRs and the corresponding XML specifications are provided. Both, visual modeling and XML representation are prototypically implemented and illustrated by means of a set of use cases. Finally, an algorithm for deriving the common ISM of a set of ISRs is introduced and evaluated based on a given test set.
AB - Instance Spanning Constraints (ISCs) allow to control the behavior of multiple business processes and their instances which is crucial in many application domains (e.g., for process synchronization). The modeling and visualization of ISCs hence constitutes an essential brick in process compliance management. Currently, no approach exists for representing a set of Instance Spanning Rules (ISRs) based on an ISC. Existing work rather focuses on visualizing ISCs at the more abstract Instance Spanning Model (ISM) level. However, the gap between the ISM and the ISR level must be bridged in order to enable the enactment of an ISC at process level. Hence, this paper collects requirements for the implementation of ISRs through an ISM, e.g., by specification of data elements. Based on the requirements an existing visual modeling language is tailored towards the modeling of ISRs and the corresponding XML specifications are provided. Both, visual modeling and XML representation are prototypically implemented and illustrated by means of a set of use cases. Finally, an algorithm for deriving the common ISM of a set of ISRs is introduced and evaluated based on a given test set.
KW - Compliance
KW - Instance spanning constraints
KW - Instance spanning rules
KW - Instantiable constraint
KW - Process-aware information systems
KW - Rule visualization
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-91704-7_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-91704-7_9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85048566590
SN - 9783319917030
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 131
EP - 146
BT - Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 19th International Conference, BPMDS 2018, 23rd International Conference, EMMSAD 2018, Held at CAiSE 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Reinhartz-Berger, Iris
A2 - Guerreiro, Sergio
A2 - Guedria, Wided
A2 - Schmidt, Rainer
A2 - Bera, Palash
A2 - Gulden, Jens
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 19th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2018 and 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2018 Held at 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2018
Y2 - 11 June 2018 through 12 June 2018
ER -