TY - GEN
T1 - A state-based context-aware declarative process model
AU - Soffer, Pnina
AU - Yehezkel, Tomer
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Declarative process models support process flexibility, which has been widely recognized as important, particularly for organizations that face frequent changes and variable stimuli from their environment. However, current declarative approaches emphasize activities and provide constraints addressing their existence and dependencies. This expressiveness is not capable of addressing the process context (namely, environment effects) and its goal. The paper proposes a declarative model which addresses activities as well as states, external events, and goals. As such, it explicitly addresses the context of a process. The model is based on the Generic Process Model (GPM), extended by a notion of activity, which includes a state change aspect and an intentional aspect. The achievement of the intention of an activity may depend on events in the environment and is hence not certain. The paper provides a formalization of the model and some conditions for verification. These are illustrated by an example from the medical domain.
AB - Declarative process models support process flexibility, which has been widely recognized as important, particularly for organizations that face frequent changes and variable stimuli from their environment. However, current declarative approaches emphasize activities and provide constraints addressing their existence and dependencies. This expressiveness is not capable of addressing the process context (namely, environment effects) and its goal. The paper proposes a declarative model which addresses activities as well as states, external events, and goals. As such, it explicitly addresses the context of a process. The model is based on the Generic Process Model (GPM), extended by a notion of activity, which includes a state change aspect and an intentional aspect. The achievement of the intention of an activity may depend on events in the environment and is hence not certain. The paper provides a formalization of the model and some conditions for verification. These are illustrated by an example from the medical domain.
KW - Context
KW - Declarative process model
KW - Generic Process Model
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960321218&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960321218
SN - 9783642217586
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 148
EP - 162
BT - Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 12th International Conference, BPMDS 2011 and 16th International Conference, EMMSAD 2011 held at CAiSE 2011, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -