Meta model for tracing impact of contextual information evolution in web-based workflows

Jeewani A. Ginige, Athula Ginige, Jorge Cardoso, José A. Cordeiro, Joaquim Filipe

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[Environment that shapes a business process consists of regulations, policies, guidelines, goals, etc. referred to as Contextual Information (CI) both external and internal to the organisation. In today’s global and competitive business world evolution and changes in CI, forces business processes to change. When processes are supported with web-based workflows, CI evolutions are required to be reflected in already automated systems, via process models. Due to limitations of current modelling tools, process related models fail to encapsulate CI that associates process elements to its environment. This creates inconsistencies and errors when trying to change implemented systems to reflect high-level CI changes. To address this, we propose a model, which allows tracing high-level CI changes down to the implementation level artefacts. Such a model needs to map the complex correlation between CI, all process elements (object, participants, actions and process flow rules), various web-based workflow artefacts (data, code and UIs) to a types of changes (modify, add and delete). This holistic view of the proposed model makes this research standout among other research work in process evolution area.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationICEIS 2007 : Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 12-16, 2007
    PublisherINSTICC
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Print)9789728865887
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    EventInternational Conference on Enterprise Information Systems -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
    Period1/01/11 → …

    Keywords

    • web-based workflow systems
    • process control
    • workflow
    • automation
    • reengineering (management)

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