Authors: Andreas Oberweis, Peter Jaeschke, Wolffried Stucky
Tags: 1994, conceptual modeling
To build efficient information systems it is important to understand and to optimize the business processes which should be supported. INCOME/STAR is an integrated environment for the cooperative development of large, distributed information systems. INCOME/STAR supports the conceptual modelling of structural system aspects by the entity relationship model and of dynamic system aspects by high level Petri nets. This combination provides a powerful concept for the integrated modelling of business processes. The behaviour of the complex object types within business processes can be described by a new variant of Petri nets, so-called Nested Relation/Transition-Nets. In this paper we suggest a new concept for the derivation of complex structured object types to be used for business process modelling. Complex object types can be interpreted as views on a given global entity relationship scheme. We give rules how to derive such complex object types from the global scheme and represent them as object types in a semantic hierarchy model as well as in an extended ER model.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-58786-1_71
