Modelling of Advanced Dependencies Between the Start and the End of Activities in Business Processes

Thomas Bauer

2023

Abstract

The control-flow of a business process (BP) defines the allowed execution orders of its activities. Until now, only whole activities can be used to define such orders. This shall be extended: Additional execution orders are enabled by allowing to use the start and the end events of activities at control flow modelling. For example, defining that the end of Act. A must happen before the end of Act. B, increases the flexibility since Act. B can be started earlier as with a classic sequence edge. This paper presents corresponding examples from practice and derives the resulting requirements for BP modelling. Furthermore, possibilities for a BP modelling tool are discussed, to visualize such dependencies graphically.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bauer T. (2023). Modelling of Advanced Dependencies Between the Start and the End of Activities in Business Processes. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-648-4, SciTePress, pages 457-465. DOI: 10.5220/0011705500003467

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis23,
author={Thomas Bauer},
title={Modelling of Advanced Dependencies Between the Start and the End of Activities in Business Processes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2023},
pages={457-465},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011705500003467},
isbn={978-989-758-648-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Modelling of Advanced Dependencies Between the Start and the End of Activities in Business Processes
SN - 978-989-758-648-4
AU - Bauer T.
PY - 2023
SP - 457
EP - 465
DO - 10.5220/0011705500003467
PB - SciTePress