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Technical Consequences of the Nature of Business Processes

Author : Václav Řepa

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Abstract

The paper is a reflection on the nature of business processes and the way which their nature necessarily manifests itself in business process modeling methodologies and languages. Respecting the nature of business processes is an essential condition for the meaningfulness of a process model. The importance of this topic is also emphasized by the fact that not all methodologies or languages respect the nature of business processes sufficiently. The paper briefly summarizes the main facts about and principles of business process management and points out the main natural features of business processes which have to be necessarily respected in modeling methodologies and languages. Subsequently, their main resulting features are analyzed in mutual relationships by examples from MMABP methodology. The paper also contains some critical reflection of current process modeling approaches and BPMN language in occasional contexts.

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The problem of intentionality versus causality is a serious philosophical topic which also contains the problem of ‘free will’ and other topics, which are still ‘live’ in the philosophical community. Moreover, in the context of business system modeling, this problem also covers the essential differences among various concurrent approaches to the basic issues of the theoretical economics. Although this problem would generally require more discussion, for the purpose of this paper let us reduce it just to the need of taking into the account in the business process modeling also the intentions of actors.
 
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Metadata
Title
Technical Consequences of the Nature of Business Processes
Author
Václav Řepa
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Complexity in Information Systems Development

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-52592-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-52593-8

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52593-8_12

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