Process-oriented Organization Modeling and Analysis

Viara Popova, Alexei Sharpanskykh

2007

Abstract

This paper presents a formal framework for process-oriented modeling and analysis of organizations. The high expressivity of a sorted predicate logic language used for specification allows representing a wide range of process-related concepts (e.g., tasks, processes, resources), characteristics and relations, which are described in the paper. Furthermore, for every organization, structural and behavioral constraints on process-related concepts can be identified. Some of them should always be fulfilled by the organization (e.g., physical world constraints), whereas others allow some degree of organizational flexibility (e.g., some domain specific constraints). An organizational model is correct if it satisfies a set of relevant organizational constraints. This paper describes automated formal techniques for establishing correctness of organizational models w.r.t. a set of diverse constraint types. The introduced framework is a part of a general framework for organization modeling and analysis.

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Popova V. and Sharpanskykh A. (2007). Process-oriented Organization Modeling and Analysis . In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-95-5, pages 114-125. DOI: 10.5220/0002422801140125


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@conference{msvveis07,
author={Viara Popova and Alexei Sharpanskykh},
title={Process-oriented Organization Modeling and Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={114-125},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002422801140125},
isbn={978-972-8865-95-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - Process-oriented Organization Modeling and Analysis
SN - 978-972-8865-95-5
AU - Popova V.
AU - Sharpanskykh A.
PY - 2007
SP - 114
EP - 125
DO - 10.5220/0002422801140125