Multilevel Business Artifacts
The representation of many real-world scenarios in conceptual models benefits from the use of multilevel abstraction hierarchies. Product models, for example, are typically grouped into product categories which, in turn, constitute the company’s range of
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Christoph G. Schuetz
Multilevel Business Processes Modeling and Data Analysis With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Michael Schrefl
Christoph G. Schuetz Linz, Austria Dissertation Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, 2015
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Foreword The multilevel modeling approach has gained prominence during the last couple of years, highlighted by high-quality contributions in various fields, such as database modeling and software engineering, as well as the emergence of the MULTI workshop series co-located with the MoDELS conference. Multilevel models more naturally reflect the reality of many information systems. In this respect process-aware information systems are no exception. Multilevel models capture interdependencies between business processes at different organizational levels and allow for a convenient representation of business process variability which, in turn, facilitates the analysis of business processes across different organizational units. In his dissertation, which is now published in this book, Christoph G. Schuetz proposes a multilevel modeling approach for the artifact-centric representation of business processes. The proposed approach towards multilevel business process modeling extends an existing object-oriented data model, the multilevel object, for the representation of data at multiple levels of abstraction. This extension, the multilevel business artifact, describes, in a single object, a process instance as well as data-centric process models at multiple, iterative instantiation levels. Multilevel business artifacts are arranged in concretization hierarchies, which all
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