Trace-Based Approach for Consistent Construction of Activity-Centric Process Models from Data-Centric Process Models

Abstract

In recent years, artifact-centric paradigm as a data-centric approach to business process modeling has gained momentum. Compared to the traditional activity-centric paradigm that focuses on process control-flow and treats data as simple black boxes that act as input and output to these activities, the artifact-centric paradigm provides equal support to both the control-flow and data. Most of the existing process modeling is activity-centric, although the artifact-centric modeling enables higher process flexibility and reusability. This is mainly due to the existence of numerous notations, tools and technologies that provide increased support to activity-centric process modeling and execution. Therefore, this paper proposes a trace-based approach to transform artifact-centric process models into activity-centric process models and to analyse the consistency of transformed and base models. A case study is utilized to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.