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A Petri Net-Based Software Process Model for Developing Process-Oriented Information Systems

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Aiming at increasing flexibility, efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of information processing and resource deployment in organizations to ensure customer satisfaction and high quality of products and services, process-oriented information systems (POIS) represent a promising realization form of computerized business information systems. Due to the complexity of POIS, explicit and specialized software process models are required to guide POIS development. In this chapter we characterize POIS with an architecture framework and present a Petri net-based software process model tailored for POIS development with consideration of organizational roles. As integrated parts of the software process model, we also introduce XML nets, a variant of high-level Petri nets as basic methodology for business processes modeling, and an XML net-based software toolset providing comprehensive functionalities for POIS development.

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Notes

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    The current version of the toolset can be freely downloaded from the project’s website http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/Forschungsgruppen/BIK/income2010/.

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    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project/default.aspx.

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    http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/.

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    http://www.smartworks.us/htm/project.htm.

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    http://satc.gsfc.nasa.gov/tools/arm/.

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    http://www.ravenflow.com/.

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    http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=uml2tools.

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    http://www.pillarone.org/.

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    http://prom.win.tue.nl/tools/prom/.

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The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for many valuable comments on an earlier version of this chapter.

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    Yu Li & Andreas Oberweis

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  3. Finance & Economics, School of Information Management, Jiangxi University of, Fenglin Rd., Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, China, People's Republic

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Li, Y., Oberweis, A. (2011). A Petri Net-Based Software Process Model for Developing Process-Oriented Information Systems. In: Song, W., et al. Information Systems Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7355-9_3

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