TY - GEN
T1 - Workflow data footprints
AU - Trcka, N.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Traditional business workflows are activity-centric, i.e., they focus mostly on specifying the control-flow aspect of business processes. The data aspect, although equally relevant, is attached to the control-flow later, as a second rate citizen, making the actual document sharing and exchange much less transparent and harder to verify. In this paper we introduce the notion of a data footprint, a directed graph representing the flow of some (user-specified) data elements, abstracting, as much as possible, from all the other aspects. We show how data footprints can be obtained automatically and efficiently from every activity-centric workflow that includes some conceptual data information. We also show how a footprint can be used to discover data-flow errors, or to compare the modeled object life-cycle with the required one.
AB - Traditional business workflows are activity-centric, i.e., they focus mostly on specifying the control-flow aspect of business processes. The data aspect, although equally relevant, is attached to the control-flow later, as a second rate citizen, making the actual document sharing and exchange much less transparent and harder to verify. In this paper we introduce the notion of a data footprint, a directed graph representing the flow of some (user-specified) data elements, abstracting, as much as possible, from all the other aspects. We show how data footprints can be obtained automatically and efficiently from every activity-centric workflow that includes some conceptual data information. We also show how a footprint can be used to discover data-flow errors, or to compare the modeled object life-cycle with the required one.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-12814-1_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-12814-1_19
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-642-12813-4
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 218
EP - 229
BT - Business Information Systems (13th International Conference, BIS 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 3-5, 2010. Proceedings)
A2 - Abramowicz, W.
A2 - Tolksdorf, R.
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
ER -