APPLYING BLOCK ACTIVITY PATTERNS IN WORKFLOW MODELING

Lucinéia Heloisa Thom, Cirano Iochpe

2006

Abstract

This paper discusses a set of business (sub-)process types represented as “workflow block activity patterns”. We describe all patterns in a common language (UML 2.0) and through some study cases we tried to find out whether they are frequently reused during business/workflow process modeling. The results showed that the patterns are frequently identified in both workflow elements and workflow applications. We believe they can be reused to improve the quality as well as the performance of the design phase in a workflow project.

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Heloisa Thom L. and Iochpe C. (2006). APPLYING BLOCK ACTIVITY PATTERNS IN WORKFLOW MODELING . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 457-460. DOI: 10.5220/0002448004570460


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Lucinéia Heloisa Thom and Cirano Iochpe},
title={APPLYING BLOCK ACTIVITY PATTERNS IN WORKFLOW MODELING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={457-460},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002448004570460},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - APPLYING BLOCK ACTIVITY PATTERNS IN WORKFLOW MODELING
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Heloisa Thom L.
AU - Iochpe C.
PY - 2006
SP - 457
EP - 460
DO - 10.5220/0002448004570460