Abstract
The proper composition of activities is important for the efficient execution of a workflow process. In this paper, an approach is presented that utilizes the data-flow underlying a workflow process to determine the importance and semantic relatedness of the various, elementary data-processing steps. Based on these aspects, fundamental guidelines are proposed to drive and objectify the task of activity composition in the context of workflow design.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Seidmann, A., Sundararajan, A.: The effects of task and information asymmetry on business process redesign. International Journal of Production Economics 50(2), 117–128 (1997)
Hackman, J.R., Oldham, G.R.: Motivation through the design of work: Test of a theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance 16(2), 250–279 (1976)
Sun, S.X., Zhao, J.L., Nunamaker, J.F., Sheng, O.R.L.: Formulating the data-flow perspective for business process management. Information Systems Research 17(4), 374–391 (2006)
Reijers, H.A., Limam, S., Van der Aalst, W.M.P.: Product-based workflow design. Journal of Management Information Systems 20(1), 229–262 (2003)
Trčka, N., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Sidorova, N.: Data-flow anti-patterns: Discovering data-flow errors in workflows. In: van Eck, P., Gordijn, J., Wieringa, R. (eds.) CAiSE 2009. LNCS, vol. 5565, pp. 425–439. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)
Robbins, S.P., Judge, T.A., et al.: Organizational behaviour. Pearson Education, Inc., New Jersey (2007)
Vanderfeesten, I., Reijers, H.A., Van der Aalst, W.M.P.: Evaluating workflow process designs using cohesion and coupling metrics. Comput. Ind. 59(5), 420 (2008)
Vanderfeesten, I.: Product-Based Design and Support of Workflow Processes. PhD thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology (2009)
Reijers, H.A.: Design and control of workflow processes: business process management for the service industry. Springer-Verlag (2003)
Van der Aa, J.H.: Composing workflow activities. Master’s thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology (2013)
Reijers, H.A., Mansar, S.L.: Best practices in business process redesign: an overview and qualitative evaluation of successful redesign heuristics. Omega 33(4), 283–306 (2005)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
van der Aa, H., Reijers, H.A., Vanderfeesten, I. (2013). Composing Workflow Activities on the Basis of Data-Flow Structures. In: Daniel, F., Wang, J., Weber, B. (eds) Business Process Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8094. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40176-3_23
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40176-3_23
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-40175-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-40176-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)