Paving the Road to Business Process Automation
Paving the Road to Business Process Automation
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为业务流程自动化铺平道路
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2000
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P. Rittgen
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P. Rittgen
SAP和阿里斯在商业上的成功使得事件驱动的流程链（EPC）在业务流程建模中扮演了重要的角色。用户和IT专家都可以从各自的角度描述要建模的流程。因此，事件驱动的过程链创建了一个公共平台，用于交流和分析应用程序和信息系统领域之外的想法。这是由一个半形式化的语义，这给了参与者更大的表达自由，但导致意外的歧义，显然不希望在后期的发展阶段，如设计和实现。在文献中，已经提出了几种解决这个问题的方法，包括EPC的正式语义的定义。我们调查这些方法的困难，并提出两个解决方案：引入一个新的逻辑连接器（XORAND）和轻微修改的OR连接。这有利于正确的EPC设计，同时继续允许表达自由，从而使更平滑的过渡到更正式的软件开发阶段，如设计和实现。对比实验验证了这些结果。
Event-driven Process Chains (EPCs) have been helped to achieve an important role in business process modeling by the commercial success of SAP and ARIS. Both users and IT experts may describe the process to be modelled from their individual perspectives. Event-driven Process Chains, therefore, create a common platform for communication and the analysis of ideas beyond the boundaries of both application and information-system domains. This is accomplished by a semiformal semantics, which gives the participants greater freedom of expression but leads to unintended ambiguities clearly undesirable in later stages of development such as design and implementation. In the literature, several approaches to this problem have been suggested including definitions of a formal semantics for EPCs. We investigate difficulties with such approaches and suggest two solutions: the introduction of a new logical connector (XORAND) and a slight modification of the OR join. This facilitates the design of correct EPCs while continuing to allow freedom of expression, thus enabling a smoother transition into the more formal phases of software development such as design and implementation. A comparative experiment validates these results.