Conceptual Modeling of Processes and Data: Connecting Different Perspectives

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Authors: Barbara Oliboni, Carlo Combi, Francesca Zerbato, Mathias Weske

Tags: 2018, conceptual modeling

Business processes constantly generate, manipulate, and consume data that are managed by organizational databases. Despite being central to process modeling and execution, the link between processes and data is often handled by developers when the process is implemented, thus leaving the connection unexplored during the conceptual design. In this paper, we introduce, formalize, and evaluate a novel conceptual view that bridges the gap between process and data models, and show some kinds of interesting insights that can be derived from this novel proposal.

Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00847-5_18