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Assignment of Actors to Activities at Process-Oriented Applications: A Research Agenda

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The Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2021)

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Current process management systems (PMS) use graphical modelling languages such as BPMN for modelling the control flow. Almost no program code has to be written by business process designers for defining the possible order of activities. For another important aspect of business processes – assigning actors to activities – no such simple and standardized way of modelling exists. This causes problems at business process implementation projects in practice. We explain such aspects and shortcomings of current commercial PMS that lead to these problems. For each aspect, it is analysed whether appropriate scientific solutions exist, or whether it is an unsolved research question.

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    We inspected the PMS Bizagi Studio V.11.2.3, IBM Business Process Designer V.8.0.1 and V.8.6.0 as well as the succession product IBM Business Automation Workflow V.20.0.0.2, K2 Cloud V.4.0, and Signavio Workflow Accelerator V.13.6.0 (for details see [5]).

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  1. Hochschule Neu-Ulm, Wileystr. 1, 89231, Neu-Ulm, Germany

    Thomas Bauer

  2. Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, Kornmarkt 1, 08056, Zwickau, Germany

    Ralf Laue

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  1. KU Leuven, LIRIS, Leuven, Belgium

    Estefanía Serral

  2. Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

    Janis Stirna

  3. University of Geneva, Carouge, Switzerland

    Jolita Ralyté

  4. Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

    Jānis Grabis

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Bauer, T., Laue, R. (2021). Assignment of Actors to Activities at Process-Oriented Applications: A Research Agenda. In: Serral, E., Stirna, J., Ralyté, J., Grabis, J. (eds) The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. PoEM 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 432. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91279-6_20

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