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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Towards Impact Analysis of Data in Business Processes

Authors : Arava Tsoury, Pnina Soffer, Iris Reinhartz-Berger

Published in: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Business processes heavily rely on data. Data is used as input for activities; it is manipulated during process execution and it serves for decisions made during the process. Thus, changes (in values or structure) of data may influence large portions of the business process. We introduce in this paper the concept of ‘data impact analysis’ which analyzes the effects of data elements on other business process elements, including activities, routing constraints, and other data elements. This type of analysis is important in scenarios such as process or database redesign and unexpected changes in data values. The paper further proposes a set of primitives depicting impacts of data within business processes, and demonstrates the use of these primitives to query the overall impact of a data element within a business process.

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Footnotes
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Due to length limitations, the process model does not specify the data elements that participate in the process. A full model of the process along with its data flow can be found at http://​hevra.​haifa.​ac.​il/​is-web/​staff/​data_​impact_​analysis/​ordering_​process_​example.​pdf.
 
3
For simplicity, we assume that the data item name is unique within the process.
 
4
A data item type denotes the possible range of values the data item can assume. It can be considered as a (finite or infinite) set of values. During process execution, a data item has a specific value from this range at a certain time.
 
5
Ternary relations and relations of higher degrees are relaxed to binary relations.
 
6
Note that the impact of a data item on a gateway is indirect, through a routing constraint.
 
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Metadata
Title
Towards Impact Analysis of Data in Business Processes
Authors
Arava Tsoury
Pnina Soffer
Iris Reinhartz-Berger
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-39428-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-39429-9

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39429-9_9

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