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View Integration of Business Process Models

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Information Systems (EMCIS 2017)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 299))

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Business processes usually have a group of organizational stakeholders with contrasting concerns. Considering the multitude of concerns around a given process, different modeling teams tend to obtain distinct diagrams when engaging in business process design. Since managing multiple diagrams of the same business process poses challenges to organizations, we propose the use of an incremental approach to consolidate diverse process diagrams into a single model. This approach consists in using a repository, which contains a taxonomy and a set of dimensions, to support the proposed view integration method. As an outcome of adopting our method, we expect a decrease in the complexity of managing business processes, by providing the organizations with a systematic way for the stakeholders to represent and consolidate their concerns.

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This research was supported by the Enterprise Architecture unit at Link Consulting, SA (www.linkconsulting.com) under the EAMS research project.

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    João Colaço & Pedro Sousa

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    Pedro Sousa

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Colaço, J., Sousa, P. (2017). View Integration of Business Process Models. In: Themistocleous, M., Morabito, V. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 299. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65930-5_48

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