BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL TRANSFORMATION ISSUES - The Top 7 Adversaries Encountered at Defining Model Transformations

Marion Murzek, Gerhard Kramler

2007

Abstract

Not least due to the widespread use of meta modeling concepts, model transformation techniques have reached a certain level of maturity (Czarnecki and Helsen, 2006). Nevertheless, defining transformations in some application areas in our case business process modeling is still a challenge because current transformation languages provide general solutions but do not support issues specific to a distinct area. We aim at providing generic solutions for model transformation problems distinct to the area of horizontal business process model transformations. As a first step in this endeavor, this work reports on the most pressing problems encountered at defining business process model transformations.

References

  1. Bézivin, J., Jouault, F., and Touzet, D. (2005). An Introduction to the ATLAS Model Management Architecture. Technical report, LINA.
  2. BOC (2005). ADONIS 3.7 - User Manual III: ADONIS Standard Modeling Method. BOC Ltd.
  3. Czarnecki, K. and Helsen, S. (2006). Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches. IBM Systems Journal, pages 621-645.
  4. Fatolahi, A. and Shams, F. (2006). An investigation into applying uml to the zachman framework. Information Systems Frontiers.
  5. IBM. Business Process Execution Language for Web Services version 1.1. IBM.
  6. List, B. and Korherr, B. (2006). An evaluation of conceptual business process modelling languages. In SAC 7806: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing.
  7. Mendling, J., Neumann, G., and Nü ttgens, M. Towards Workflow Pattern Support of Event-Driven Process Chains (EPC). In Proceedings of the 2nd GI Workshop XML4BPM at the 11th GI Conference BTW 2005.
  8. Mendling, J., Neumann, G., and N üttgens, M. (2005). Yet another event-driven process chain.
  9. Mendling, J. and Nü ttgens, M. (2003). EPC Modelling based on Implicit Arc Types. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Technology and its Applications (ISTA).
  10. Miller, G. A., Fellbaum, C., and Tengi, R. (1998). Wordnet: A lexical database for the english language.
  11. Murzek, M., Kramler, G., and Michlmayr, E. (2006). Structural patterns for the transformation of business process models. EDOCW'06, pages 18-28.
  12. OMG. UML 2.1 Superstructure Specification. Object Management Group.
  13. OMG (2006). Business Process Modeling Notation Specification. Object Management Group, http://www.bpmn.org/.
  14. Russell, N., ter Hofstede, A. H. M., Edmond, D., and van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2004). Workflow Data Patterns. Technical report, Queensland University of Technology.
  15. Russell, N., van der Aalst, W. M. P., ter Hofstede, A. H. M., and Edmond, D. (2005). Workflow resource patterns: Identification, representation and tool support. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE05).
  16. Russell, N., van der Aalst, W. M. P., ter Hofstede, A. H. M., and Wohed, P. (2006). On the suitability of uml 2.0 activity diagrams for business process modelling. In APCCM 7806: Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific conference on Conceptual modelling.
  17. St örrle, H. (2006). A Comparison of (e)EPC and UML 2 Activity Diagrams. In EPK 2006 Geschäftsprozessmanagement mit Ereignisgesteuerten Prozessketten.
  18. White, S. A. (2004). Process Modeling Notations and Workflow Patterns. BPTrends.
  19. Wohed, P., van der Aalst, W. M., Dumas, M., ter Hofstede, A. H., and Russell, N. (2005). Pattern-based Analysis of UML Activity Diagrams. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'2005).
  20. Wohed, P., van der Aalst, W. M., Dumas, M., ter Hofstede, A. H., and Russell, N. (2006). On the Suitability of BPMN for Business Process Modelling. In Proceedings 4th International Conference on Business Process Management.
  21. Zachman, J. A. (1987). A framework for information systems architecture. IBM System Journal.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Murzek M. and Kramler G. (2007). BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL TRANSFORMATION ISSUES - The Top 7 Adversaries Encountered at Defining Model Transformations . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 144-151. DOI: 10.5220/0002383201440151


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Marion Murzek and Gerhard Kramler},
title={BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL TRANSFORMATION ISSUES - The Top 7 Adversaries Encountered at Defining Model Transformations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={144-151},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002383201440151},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL TRANSFORMATION ISSUES - The Top 7 Adversaries Encountered at Defining Model Transformations
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Murzek M.
AU - Kramler G.
PY - 2007
SP - 144
EP - 151
DO - 10.5220/0002383201440151