Business Process Decomposition - An Approach Based on the Principle of Separation of Concerns
| dc.contributor.author | Caetano, Artur | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, António Rito | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tribolet, José | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-28T22:56:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-28T22:56:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The functional decomposition of a business process breaks it down into progressively less granular activities. Decomposition contributes to the modular design of a system, the reuse of its parts and to its overall comprehensibility. But achieving these qualities requires a business process to be decomposed consistently, which implies it is always split into an identical set of activities according to a specific purpose, regardless of the modeller’s and modelling context. This paper describes an application of the principle of role-based separation of concerns to consistently decompose a business process into its constituent atomic activities, thus separating its distinct features and minimising behaviour overlap. An activity is abstracted as a collaboration between role types that are played by entities. The decomposition method successively separates the overlapping roles until an activity is specified as a collaboration of an orthogonal set of role types. The method facilitates the consistent decomposition of a business process and the identification of its atomic activities. The relevance of the method is assessed through a number of scenarios according to the guidelines of design science research. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.18417/emisa.5.1.3 | |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 1866-3621 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures - An International Journal: Vol. 5, Nr. 1 | |
| dc.title | Business Process Decomposition - An Approach Based on the Principle of Separation of Concerns | en |
| dc.type | Text/Journal Article | |
| gi.citation.endPage | 57 | |
| gi.citation.publisherPlace | Berlin | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 44 | |
| gi.conference.sessiontitle | Special Issue on Methodologies for Enterprise and Organisational Engineering |
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