APQL: A process-model query language

Arthur H.M. Ter Hofstede; Chun Ouyang; Marcello La Rosa; Liang Song; Jianmin Wang; Artem Polyvyanyy

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02922-1_2

APQL: A process-model query language

Arthur H.M. Ter Hofstede
, Chun Ouyang
, Marcello La Rosa
, Liang Song
, Jianmin Wang
, Artem Polyvyanyy

Information Systems IE&IS

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Abstract

As business process management technology matures, organisations acquire more and more business process models. The management of the resulting collections of process models poses real challenges. One of these challenges concerns model retrieval where support should be provided for the formulation and efficient execution of business process model queries. As queries based on only structural information cannot deal with all querying requirements in practice, there should be support for queries that require knowledge of process model semantics. In this paper we formally define a process model query language that is based on semantic relationships between tasks in process models and is independent of any particular process modelling notation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Asia Pacific Business Process Management : 1st Asia Pacific Conference, AP-BPM 2013, Beijing, China, August 29-30, 2013. Selected Papers
Editors	Minseok Song, M.T. Wynn, Jianxun Liu
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	23-38
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-02921-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02922-1_2
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	1st Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management (AP-BPM 2013) - Beijing, China Duration: 29 Aug 2013 → 30 Aug 2013 Conference number: 1

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	159
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348

Conference

Conference	1st Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management (AP-BPM 2013)
Abbreviated title	AP-BPM 2013
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	29/08/13 → 30/08/13

Funding

Acknowledgements. Song and Wang are supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB320700), the National High-Tech Development Program of China (2008AA042301), the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (90718010), and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China. ter Hofstede, La Rosa and Polyvyanyy are partly supported by the ARC Linkage Grant “Facilitating Business Process Standardization and Reuse” (LP110100252). In 2010 and 2011, ter Hofstede was a senior visiting scholar of Tsinghua University. NICTA is funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence program.

Keywords

Business process model
Business process model query
Process model collection
Query language

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Ter Hofstede, A. H. M., Ouyang, C., La Rosa, M., Song, L., Wang, J., & Polyvyanyy, A. (2013). APQL: A process-model query language. In M. Song, M. T. Wynn, & J. Liu (Eds.), Asia Pacific Business Process Management : 1st Asia Pacific Conference, AP-BPM 2013, Beijing, China, August 29-30, 2013. Selected Papers (pp. 23-38). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 159). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02922-1_2

Ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M. ; Ouyang, Chun ; La Rosa, Marcello et al. / APQL : A process-model query language. Asia Pacific Business Process Management : 1st Asia Pacific Conference, AP-BPM 2013, Beijing, China, August 29-30, 2013. Selected Papers. editor / Minseok Song ; M.T. Wynn ; Jianxun Liu. Berlin : Springer, 2013. pp. 23-38 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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Ter Hofstede, AHM, Ouyang, C, La Rosa, M, Song, L, Wang, J & Polyvyanyy, A 2013, APQL: A process-model query language. in M Song, MT Wynn & J Liu (eds), Asia Pacific Business Process Management : 1st Asia Pacific Conference, AP-BPM 2013, Beijing, China, August 29-30, 2013. Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 159, Springer, Berlin, pp. 23-38, 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management (AP-BPM 2013), Beijing, China, 29/08/13. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02922-1_2

APQL: A process-model query language. / Ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M.; Ouyang, Chun; La Rosa, Marcello et al.
Asia Pacific Business Process Management : 1st Asia Pacific Conference, AP-BPM 2013, Beijing, China, August 29-30, 2013. Selected Papers. ed. / Minseok Song; M.T. Wynn; Jianxun Liu. Berlin: Springer, 2013. p. 23-38 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 159).

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