Hierarchical EPC models – review of model linking concepts

• Autorzy: Szczęśniak Bartosz

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DOI

10.2478/mape-2019-0048

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

EPC models are currently among the leading standard business process modelling solutions. As long as the rules for creating flat EPC models are explicit and raise no significant doubts, when it comes to linking models of different types, the literature of the subject delivers diversified solutions. Four such alternative concepts that can be applied in this respect have been identified and described in this article. They have been used to link EPC models for four cases proposed. These cases differ as to the degree of complexity, and they represent different kinds of potential links between processes being modelled. Using the concepts in question with reference to the cases defined has made it possible to identify situations in which it is impossible to link models, or when it raises certain doubts. What has also been proposed is that one of the concepts identified in the paper can be modified in such a manner that using it to link EPC models does not pose any problem in any of the cases discussed.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

business process modelling; EPC; BPM; linking of process models

• Wydawca: STE GROUP ; De Gruyter
• Czasopismo: Multidisciplinary Aspects of Production Engineering
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: Vol. 2, Iss. 1
• Strony: 476--486
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 15 poz., fig.

Twórcy

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Szczęśniak Bartosz

• Silesian University of Technology, Poland

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