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Process modeling

About: Process modeling is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11639 publications have been published within this topic receiving 223996 citations. The topic is also known as: process simulation.


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TL;DR: This article reviews methods that aim to make better use of empirical data, or of process knowledge derived from such data, in order to develop and improve the models.

52 citations

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TL;DR: A unifying framework for modeling surgical processes that is ontologically founded and formally and mathematically precise was developed and demonstrated by applying it to four contemporary approaches for surgical process modeling by using the common underlying formalization.

52 citations

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TL;DR: IPM-PDL, an XML-based process definition language for IPM is introduced, which will be translated to a colored Petri Net and will demonstrate how IPM can effectively manage business processes throughout their lifecycle ranging from process modeling to process knowledge management.

52 citations

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TL;DR: The EM-BrA2CE (Enterprise Modeling using Business Rules, Agents, Activities, Concepts and Events) Framework is presented, a unifying vocabulary and execution model for declarative process modeling and it is shown how declaratives process models can contribute to the model-driven design of Service-Oriented Architectures.
Abstract: In management theory of the last decades, much importance has been attached to a process-oriented perspective on organizational (re)structuring. Yet to date, organi-zations still experience difficulties in applying this process-oriented perspective to the design and maintenance information systems. The root of the problem lies with a procedural representation of business processes that contains inadequate information for computer systems to provide flexible automated business process support. The counter-part of a procedural representation is a declarative one that explicitly takes into account the business concerns that govern business processes. Recently, a number of process modeling languages have appeared that could be identified as declarative languages. These modeling languages have very distinct knowledge representation backgrounds, often lack a formal execution model and often only model one aspect of the many business concerns that exist in reality. What is needed are meaningful ways to combine several kinds of expressions, called business rule types, independently of the used methods for knowledge representation and reasoning. In this paper, we present the EM-BrA2CE (Enterprise Modeling using Business Rules, Agents, Activities, Concepts and Events) Framework, a unifying vocabulary and execution model for declarative process modeling. The vocabulary is described in terms of the Semantics for Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) standard and the execution model is presented as a Colored Petri Net (CP-Net). In addition, we show how declarative process models can contribute to the model-driven design of Service-Oriented Architectures.

52 citations

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07 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The definition of a service-oriented approach for business processes modeling is concerned, which organizes the discovery, the selection and the assembly of business services to dynamically build business processes tailored to business designer's requirements.
Abstract: This research concerns the definition of a service-oriented approach for business processes modeling. Business services are reusable process units that contain one or several process fragments for satisfying business goals. Business services may be composed in various manners to satisfy business process designer's needs. A goal-oriented business service model supports business knowledge representation for specifying and composing business services. Ontologies for business systems domain provide a common vocabulary for matching business process designer's request and available business services. A service composition process organizes the discovery, the selection and the assembly of business services to dynamically build business processes tailored to business designer's requirements.

51 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202359
2022184
2021254
2020327
2019368
2018395