TY - GEN
T1 - Variability in Artifact-Centric Process Modeling: The Hetero-Homogeneous Approach
AU - Schütz, Christoph Georg
AU - Schrefl, Michael
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Today's dynamic business environment demands from companies variable and flexible processes. Rather than imposing a single fixed process, process models must account for the variability of real-world business problems. Many companies are hierarchically organized with top-down decision making processes. On the one hand, company policies and legal regulations often require compliance with standard process models prescribed by higher-level management. On the other hand, lower-level employees should be flexible within the prescribed boundaries. In this paper, we propose a hetero-homogeneous approach to modeling process variability. We employ the multi-level business artifact (MBA) in order to represent within a single object the homogeneous schema of an abstraction hierarchy of processes. We employ multilevel concretization for the introduction of heterogeneities into sub-hierarchies which eomply with the homogeneous global schema.
Keywords: Business Artifact, Multilevel Modeling, Process Variability, Process Flexibility
AB - Today's dynamic business environment demands from companies variable and flexible processes. Rather than imposing a single fixed process, process models must account for the variability of real-world business problems. Many companies are hierarchically organized with top-down decision making processes. On the one hand, company policies and legal regulations often require compliance with standard process models prescribed by higher-level management. On the other hand, lower-level employees should be flexible within the prescribed boundaries. In this paper, we propose a hetero-homogeneous approach to modeling process variability. We employ the multi-level business artifact (MBA) in order to represent within a single object the homogeneous schema of an abstraction hierarchy of processes. We employ multilevel concretization for the introduction of heterogeneities into sub-hierarchies which eomply with the homogeneous global schema.
Keywords: Business Artifact, Multilevel Modeling, Process Variability, Process Flexibility
UR - http://www.dke.jku.at/index.html?/research/index.html
M3 - Conference proceedings
VL - 154
T3 - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series (CRPIT)
SP - 29
EP - 38
BT - Proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, January 2014
A2 - Georg Grossmann, Motoshi Saeki, null
ER -