DERIVING CANONICAL BUSINESS OBJECT OPERATION NETS FROM PROCESS MODELS

Wang Zhaoxia, Wang Jianmin, Wen Lijie, Liu Yingbo

2009

Abstract

Process model defines the business object operation orders. It is necessary to validate that the business object operation sequences are consistent with the reference business object life cycle. In this paper we propose an approach for deriving the canonical business object operation nets from process models which are modelled with workflow coloured Petri net, i.e. WFCP-net. Our approach consists of 3 steps. First, the tasks, which access a certain business object, are modelled with task operation nets. Second, the WFCP-net is rewritten with these task operation nets. Third, the business object operation net is reduced to the canonical one.

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Zhaoxia W., Jianmin W., Lijie W. and Yingbo L. (2009). DERIVING CANONICAL BUSINESS OBJECT OPERATION NETS FROM PROCESS MODELS . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 182-187. DOI: 10.5220/0001996801820187


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Wang Zhaoxia and Wang Jianmin and Wen Lijie and Liu Yingbo},
title={DERIVING CANONICAL BUSINESS OBJECT OPERATION NETS FROM PROCESS MODELS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={182-187},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001996801820187},
isbn={978-989-8111-86-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - DERIVING CANONICAL BUSINESS OBJECT OPERATION NETS FROM PROCESS MODELS
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - Zhaoxia W.
AU - Jianmin W.
AU - Lijie W.
AU - Yingbo L.
PY - 2009
SP - 182
EP - 187
DO - 10.5220/0001996801820187