A Conceptual Approach for Discovering Proportions of Disjunctive Routing Patterns in a Business Process Model

• Kyoungsook Kim,
• Moonsuk Yeon,
• Byeongsoo Jeong,
• Kwanghoon Kim,

Vol. 11, No. 2, February 27, 2017
10.3837/tiis.2017.02.030, Download Paper (Free):

• business process
• Workflow Process
• Disjunctive, Conjunctive, and Iterative Routing Patterns, Stochastic Information Control Nets, Proportional Information Control Nets, Temporal Workcases, Process Warehouse

Abstract

The success of a business process management system stands or falls on the quality of the business processes. Many experiments therefore have been devoting considerable attention to the modeling and analysis of business processes in process-centered organizations. One of those experiments is to apply the probabilistic theories to the analytical evaluations of business process models in order to improve their qualities. In this paper, we excogitate a conceptual way of applying a probability theory of proportions into modeling business processes. There are three types of routing patterns such as sequential, disjunctive, conjunctive and iterative routing patterns in modeling business processes, into which the proportion theory is applicable. This paper focuses on applying the proportion theory to the disjunctive routing patterns, in particular, and formally named proportional information control net that is the formal representation of a corresponding business process model. In this paper, we propose a conceptual approach to discover a proportional information control net from the enactment event histories of the corresponding business process, and describe the details of a series of procedural frameworks and operational mechanisms formally and graphically supporting the proposed approach. We strongly believe that the conceptual approach with the proportional information control net ought to be very useful to improve the quality of business processes by adapting to the reengineering and redesigning the corresponding business processes.

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