Automatic generation of optimal business processes from business rules

B. Steen; Luis Ferreira Pires; Maria Eugenia Iacob

doi:10.1109/EDOCW.2010.40

Automatic generation of optimal business processes from business rules

B. Steen, Luis Ferreira Pires, Maria Eugenia Iacob

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

In recent years, business process models are increasingly being used as a means for business process improvement. Business rules can be seen as requirements for business processes, in that they describe the constraints that must hold for business processes that implement these business rules. Therefore, in principle one could devise (automated) transformations from business rules to business processes. These transformations should improve the quality (correctness) of business processes, by imposing their conformance to the applicable business rules, and should also allow business processes to be optimized for some additional requirements, like, for example, resource allocation, performance and costs. The objectives of this paper are twofold: to investigate the automated support to transform business rules into optimized processes, and to assess the suitability of model-driven technologies (metamodeling and transformations) and tools to implement these transformations.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos, CA, USA
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	117-126
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7695-4164-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2010.40
Publication status	Published - Oct 2010
Event	14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference EDOC 2010 - Vitoria, Brazil Duration: 25 Oct 2010 → 29 Oct 2010 Conference number: 14

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Name
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society

Conference

Conference	14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference EDOC 2010
Abbreviated title	EDOC
Country	Brazil
City	Vitoria
Period	25/10/10 → 29/10/10

Keywords

METIS-271900
EWI-18765
SCS-Services
IR-74478

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Steen, B., Ferreira Pires, L., & Iacob, M. E. (2010). Automatic generation of optimal business processes from business rules. In 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010 (pp. 117-126). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2010.40

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Steen, B, Ferreira Pires, L & Iacob, ME 2010, Automatic generation of optimal business processes from business rules. in 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 117-126, 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference EDOC 2010, Vitoria, Brazil, 25/10/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2010.40

Automatic generation of optimal business processes from business rules. / Steen, B.; Ferreira Pires, Luis ; Iacob, Maria Eugenia.

14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010. Los Alamitos, CA, USA : IEEE Computer Society, 2010. p. 117-126.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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