BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING WITH OBJECTS AND ROLES

Artur Caetano, António Rito Silva, José Tribolet

2004

Abstract

Role-based business process modeling deals with partitioning the universe of process modeling into different areas of concern by describing how business objects collaborate. A business object represents a concept of interest in the organization, such an activity or an entity, which can play multiple roles according to its behavior while interacting with other business objects. A specific business object collaboration can be expressed by the roles played by every participant in that scenario. This approach allows creating semantically richer business process models, and designing business objects where behavior is clearly separated and dependent on its usage context. Both of these results contribute to increase the understandability of process models and to enhance business object reuse.

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Caetano A., Rito Silva A. and Tribolet J. (2004). BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING WITH OBJECTS AND ROLES . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 109-114. DOI: 10.5220/0002648901090114


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Artur Caetano and António Rito Silva and José Tribolet},
title={BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING WITH OBJECTS AND ROLES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={109-114},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002648901090114},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING WITH OBJECTS AND ROLES
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Caetano A.
AU - Rito Silva A.
AU - Tribolet J.
PY - 2004
SP - 109
EP - 114
DO - 10.5220/0002648901090114