Towards a Common Understanding of Business Process Instance Data

Nima Moghadam, Hye-young Paik

2016

Abstract

In an organisation several Business Process Management System (BPMS) products can co-exist and work alongside each other. Each one of these BPM tools has its own definition of process instances, creating a heterogeneous environment. This reduces interoperability between business process management systems and increases the effort involved in analysing the data. In this paper, we propose a common model for business process instances, named Business Process Instance Model (BPIM), which provides a holistic view of business process instances generated from multiple systems. BPIM consists of visual notations and their metadata schema. It captures three dimensions of process instances: process execution paths, instance data provenance and meta-data. BPIM aims to provide an abstract layer between the process instance repository and BPM engines, leading to common understanding of business process instances.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Moghadam N. and Paik H. (2016). Towards a Common Understanding of Business Process Instance Data . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-168-7, pages 193-200. DOI: 10.5220/0005678401930200

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward16,
author={Nima Moghadam and Hye-young Paik},
title={Towards a Common Understanding of Business Process Instance Data},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2016},
pages={193-200},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005678401930200},
isbn={978-989-758-168-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Towards a Common Understanding of Business Process Instance Data
SN - 978-989-758-168-7
AU - Moghadam N.
AU - Paik H.
PY - 2016
SP - 193
EP - 200
DO - 10.5220/0005678401930200