Weak conformance between process models and synchronized object life cycles
Weak conformance between process models and synchronized object life cycles

Author: Meyer, Andreas

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 3869563036

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Process models specify behavioral execution constraints between activities as well as between activities and data objects. A data object is characterized by its states and state transitions represented as object life cycle. For process execution, all behavioral execution constraints must be correct. Correctness can be verified via soundness checking which currently only considers control flow information. For data correctness, conformance between a process model and its object life cycles is checked. Current approaches abstract from dependencies between multiple data objects and require fully specified process models although, in real-world process repositories, often underspecified models are found. Coping with these issues, we introduce the concept of synchronized object life cycles and we define a mapping of data constraints of a process model to Petri nets extending an existing mapping. Further, we apply the notion of weak conformance to process models to tell whether each time an activity needs to access a data object in a particular state, it is guaranteed that the data object is in or can reach the expected state. Then, we introduce an algorithm for an integrated verification of control flow correctness and weak data conformance using soundness checking.

Service-Oriented Computing
Service-Oriented Computing

Author: Xavier Franch

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-10

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 3662453916

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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2014, held in Paris, France, in November 2014. The 25 full and 26 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 180 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on business process management; service composition and discovery; service design, description and evolution; cloud and business service management; ensuring composition properties; quality of service; semantic web services; service management; cloud service management; business service management; trust; service design and description.

Perspectives in Business Informatics Research
Perspectives in Business Informatics Research

Author: Björn Johansson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 3319649302

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2017, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2017. This year the BIR conference attracted 59 submissions from 23 countries. They were reviewed by 45 members of the Program Committee, and as a result, 17 full papers and 3 short papers were selected for presentation at the conference and publication in this volume. They are organized in sections on enterprise architecture, business process management, business analytics, information systems applications, and information systems development. In addition, the summaries of the two conference keynotes are also included. This year, the conference theme was the digital transformation, which will impact most businesses, organizations and societies and call for new and radical approaches to how we adopt, use and manage IT.

Business Process Management Workshops
Business Process Management Workshops

Author: Niels Lohmann

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-09

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 3319062573

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of nine international workshops held in Beijing, China, in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2013, in August 2013. The nine workshops comprised Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2013), Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2 2013), Data- and Artifact-Centric BPM (DAB 2013), Decision Mining and Modeling for Business Processes (DeMiMoP 2013), Emerging Topics in Business Process Management (ETBPM 2013), Process-Aware Logistics Systems (PALS 2013), Process Model Collections: Management and Reuse (PMC-MR 2013), Security in Business Processes (SBP 2013) and Theory and Applications of Process Visualization (TAProViz 2013). The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions.

New Advances in Information Systems and Technologies
New Advances in Information Systems and Technologies

Author: Álvaro Rocha

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 1113

ISBN-13: 3319312324

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This book contains a selection of articles from The 2016 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'16), held between the 22nd and 24th of March at Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern Information Systems and Technologies research, together with their technological development and applications. The main topics covered are: Information and Knowledge Management; Organizational Models and Information Systems; Software and Systems Modeling; Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; Multimedia Systems and Applications; Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; Big Data Analytics and Applications; Human-Computer Interaction; Health Informatics; Information Technologies in Education; Information Technologies in Radiocommunications.

Proceedings of the 9th Ph.D. retreat of the HPI Research School on service-oriented systems engineering
Proceedings of the 9th Ph.D. retreat of the HPI Research School on service-oriented systems engineering

Author: Meinel, Christoph

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 3869563451

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Design and implementation of service-oriented architectures impose numerous research questions from the fields of software engineering, system analysis and modeling, adaptability, and application integration. Service-oriented Systems Engineering represents a symbiosis of best practices in object orientation, component-based development, distributed computing, and business process management. It provides integration of business and IT concerns. Service-oriented Systems Engineering denotes a current research topic in the field of IT-Systems Engineering with high potential in academic research and industrial application. The annual Ph.D. Retreat of the Research School provides all members the opportunity to present the current state of their research and to give an outline of prospective Ph.D. projects. Due to the interdisciplinary structure of the Research School, this technical report covers a wide range of research topics. These include but are not limited to: Human Computer Interaction and Computer Vision as Service; Service-oriented Geovisualization Systems; Algorithm Engineering for Service-oriented Systems; Modeling and Verification of Self-adaptive Service-oriented Systems; Tools and Methods for Software Engineering in Service-oriented Systems; Security Engineering of Service-based IT Systems; Service-oriented Information Systems; Evolutionary Transition of Enterprise Applications to Service Orientation; Operating System Abstractions for Service-oriented Computing; and Services Specification, Composition, and Enactment.

Parts without a whole?
Parts without a whole?

Author: Schmiedgen, Jan

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam

Published: 2016-02-03

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 3869563346

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This explorative study gives a descriptive overview of what organizations do and experience when they say they practice design thinking. It looks at how the concept has been appropriated in organizations and also describes patterns of design thinking adoption. The authors use a mixed-method research design fed by two sources: questionnaire data and semi-structured personal expert interviews. The study proceeds in six parts: (1) design thinking¹s entry points into organizations; (2) understandings of the descriptor; (3) its fields of application and organizational localization; (4) its perceived impact; (5) reasons for its discontinuation or failure; and (6) attempts to measure its success. In conclusion the report challenges managers to be more conscious of their current design thinking practice. The authors suggest a co-evolution of the concept¹s introduction with innovation capability building and the respective changes in leadership approaches. It is argued that this might help in unfolding design thinking¹s hidden potentials as well as preventing unintended side-effects such as discontented teams or the dwindling authority of managers.

Development of AUTOSAR standard documents at Carmeq GmbH
Development of AUTOSAR standard documents at Carmeq GmbH

Author: Hebig, Regina

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam

Published: 2016-01-11

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 3869563176

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This report documents the captured MDE history of Carmeq GmbH, in context of the project Evolution of MDE Settings in Practice. The goal of the project is the elicitation of MDE approaches and their evolution.

Efficient and scalable graph view maintenance for deductive graph databases based on generalized discrimination networks
Efficient and scalable graph view maintenance for deductive graph databases based on generalized discrimination networks

Author: Beyhl, Thomas

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 3869563397

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Graph databases provide a natural way of storing and querying graph data. In contrast to relational databases, queries over graph databases enable to refer directly to the graph structure of such graph data. For example, graph pattern matching can be employed to formulate queries over graph data. However, as for relational databases running complex queries can be very time-consuming and ruin the interactivity with the database. One possible approach to deal with this performance issue is to employ database views that consist of pre-computed answers to common and often stated queries. But to ensure that database views yield consistent query results in comparison with the data from which they are derived, these database views must be updated before queries make use of these database views. Such a maintenance of database views must be performed efficiently, otherwise the effort to create and maintain views may not pay off in comparison to processing the queries directly on the data from which the database views are derived. At the time of writing, graph databases do not support database views and are limited to graph indexes that index nodes and edges of the graph data for fast query evaluation, but do not enable to maintain pre-computed answers of complex queries over graph data. Moreover, the maintenance of database views in graph databases becomes even more challenging when negation and recursion have to be supported as in deductive relational databases. In this technical report, we present an approach for the efficient and scalable incremental graph view maintenance for deductive graph databases. The main concept of our approach is a generalized discrimination network that enables to model nested graph conditions including negative application conditions and recursion, which specify the content of graph views derived from graph data stored by graph databases. The discrimination network enables to automatically derive generic maintenance rules using graph transformations for maintaining graph views in case the graph data from which the graph views are derived change. We evaluate our approach in terms of a case study using multiple data sets derived from open source projects.