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Role-Based Process View Derivation and Composition

Role-Based Process View Derivation and Composition Role-Based Process View Derivation and Composition XIAOHUI ZHAO, University of Canberra CHENGFEI LIU, Swinburne University of Technology SIRA YONGCHAREON, Unitec Institute of Technology MAREK KOWALKIEWICZ, SAP WASIM SADIQ, Infosys The process view concept deploys a partial and temporal representation to adjust the visible view of a business process according to various perception constraints of users. Process view technology is of practical use for privacy protection and authorization control in process-oriented business management. Owing to complex organizational structure, it is challenging for large companies to accurately specify the diverse perception of different users over business processes. Aiming to tackle this issue, this article presents a rolebased process view model to incorporate role dependencies into process view derivation. Compared to existing process view approaches, ours particularly supports runtime updates to the process view perceivable to a user with specific view merging operations, thereby enabling the dynamic tracing of process perception. A series of rules and theorems are established to guarantee the structural consistency and validity of process view transformation. A hypothetical case is conducted to illustrate the feasibility of our approach, and a prototype is developed for the proof-of-concept purpose. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.4.1 [Office Automation]: Workflow Management General http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) Association for Computing Machinery

Role-Based Process View Derivation and Composition

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Role-Based Process View Derivation and Composition XIAOHUI ZHAO, University of Canberra CHENGFEI LIU, Swinburne University of Technology SIRA YONGCHAREON, Unitec Institute of Technology MAREK KOWALKIEWICZ, SAP WASIM SADIQ, Infosys The process view concept deploys a partial and temporal representation to adjust the visible view of a business process according to various perception constraints of users. Process view technology is of practical use for privacy protection and authorization control in process-oriented business management. Owing to complex organizational structure, it is challenging for large companies to accurately specify the diverse perception of different users over business processes. Aiming to tackle this issue, this article presents a rolebased process view model to incorporate role dependencies into process view derivation. Compared to existing process view approaches, ours particularly supports runtime updates to the process view perceivable to a user with specific view merging operations, thereby enabling the dynamic tracing of process perception. A series of rules and theorems are established to guarantee the structural consistency and validity of process view transformation. A hypothetical case is conducted to illustrate the feasibility of our approach, and a prototype is developed for the proof-of-concept purpose. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.4.1 [Office Automation]: Workflow Management General

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ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jun 2, 2015

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