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Conceptual Modeling of Processes and Data: Connecting Different Perspectives

Authors : Carlo Combi, Barbara Oliboni, Mathias Weske, Francesca Zerbato

Published in: Conceptual Modeling

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Business processes constantly generate, manipulate, and consume data that are managed by organizational databases. Despite being central to process modeling and execution, the link between processes and data is often handled by developers when the process is implemented, thus leaving the connection unexplored during the conceptual design. In this paper, we introduce, formalize, and evaluate a novel conceptual view that bridges the gap between process and data models, and show some kinds of interesting insights that can be derived from this novel proposal.

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Title: Conceptual Modeling of Processes and Data: Connecting Different Perspectives
Authors: Carlo Combi
Barbara Oliboni
Mathias Weske
Francesca Zerbato
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Conceptual Modeling
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-00846-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-00847-5

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00847-5_18

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