INTEGRATING BUSINESS PROCESSES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Giorgio Bruno

2007

Abstract

While the need for a better integration between business processes and enterprise information systems is widely acknowledged, current notations for business processes are inclined to emphasize control-flow issues and omit to provide adequate links with two fundamental aspects of enterprise information systems, i.e. the human tasks and the information flow among the tasks. This paper presents a notation for business processes whose purpose is to overcome the above-mentioned limitations. This notation, called tk-nets (task-oriented nets) supports four interaction patterns between process elements and human tasks. It is exemplified with the help of a case study concerning a web-based application intended to manage the handling of paper submissions to conferences.

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Bruno G. (2007). INTEGRATING BUSINESS PROCESSES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-07-4, pages 79-86. DOI: 10.5220/0001327200790086


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@conference{icsoft07,
author={Giorgio Bruno},
title={INTEGRATING BUSINESS PROCESSES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={79-86},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001327200790086},
isbn={978-989-8111-07-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT,
TI - INTEGRATING BUSINESS PROCESSES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-07-4
AU - Bruno G.
PY - 2007
SP - 79
EP - 86
DO - 10.5220/0001327200790086