TY - GEN
T1 - Enabling the analysis of cross-cutting aspects in ad-hoc processes
AU - Beheshti, Seyed Mehdi Reza
AU - Benatallah, Boualem
AU - Motahari-Nezhad, Hamid Reza
PY - 2013/7/12
Y1 - 2013/7/12
N2 - Processes in case management applications are flexible, knowledge-intensive and people-driven, and often used as guides for workers in processing of artifacts. An important fact is the evolution of process artifacts over time as they are touched by different people in the context of a knowledge-intensive process. This highlights the need for tracking process artifacts in order to find out their history (artifact versioning) and also provenance (where they come from, and who touched and did what on them). We present a framework, simple abstractions and a language for analyzing cross-cutting aspects (in particular versioning and provenance) over process artifacts. We introduce two concepts of timed-folders to represent evolution of artifacts over time, and activity-paths to represent the process which led to artifacts. The introduced approaches have been implemented on top of FPSPARQL, Folder-Path enabled extension of SPARQL, and experimentally validated on real-world datasets.
AB - Processes in case management applications are flexible, knowledge-intensive and people-driven, and often used as guides for workers in processing of artifacts. An important fact is the evolution of process artifacts over time as they are touched by different people in the context of a knowledge-intensive process. This highlights the need for tracking process artifacts in order to find out their history (artifact versioning) and also provenance (where they come from, and who touched and did what on them). We present a framework, simple abstractions and a language for analyzing cross-cutting aspects (in particular versioning and provenance) over process artifacts. We introduce two concepts of timed-folders to represent evolution of artifacts over time, and activity-paths to represent the process which led to artifacts. The introduced approaches have been implemented on top of FPSPARQL, Folder-Path enabled extension of SPARQL, and experimentally validated on real-world datasets.
KW - Ad-hoc Business Processes
KW - Case Management
KW - Provenance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879855286&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38709-8_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38709-8_4
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84879855286
SN - 9783642387081
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 51
EP - 67
BT - Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A2 - Salinesi, Camille
A2 - Norrie, Moira C.
A2 - Pastor, Óscar
T2 - 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2013
Y2 - 17 June 2013 through 21 June 2013
ER -