Abstract
Business process modelling usually involves perspectives like the functional (what), the organizational (who), the data-based (consuming and producing which information) and the behavioural (when) perspective. However, the so-called “locational” perspective is either neglected or vaguely contained in one of the others. A locational perspective implies that locations are treated as “first-class” modelling entities like processes and data objects. The assignment of tasks to participants and the progression of a process may then depend on these locations. This contribution describes how such location aware processes may be modelled and how a process execution system can be extended in a way so that it interprets these processes.
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The presented work is developed and used in the project “Kompetenzzentrum für praktisches Prozess- und Qualitätsmanagement” which is funded by “Europäischer Fonds für regionale Entwicklung (EFRE)”.
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Schönig, S., Zeising, M., Jablonski, S. (2014). Towards Location-Aware Declarative Business Process Management. In: Abramowicz, W., Kokkinaki, A. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 183. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11460-6_4
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