Aspect-Oriented Business Process Management
This document summarizes Amin Jalali's PhD dissertation which examined approaches to separating cross-cutting concerns in business process management. The dissertation investigated imperative, declarative, and hybrid process modeling paradigms. It proposed an aspect-oriented approach to business process modeling that separates core concerns from cross-cutting concerns using concepts from aspect-oriented programming. The dissertation followed a design science research methodology to develop modeling constructs and methods to support modularization and separation of concerns in business process models. The aspect-oriented business process modeling approach was presented as the resulting artifact with the aim to improve complexity, reusability, agility and other properties for managing cross-cutting concerns in business processes.
Aspect-Oriented Business Process Management
- 1. Amin Jalali 1 Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden PhD dissertation 19 December 2016 Supervisor: Professor Paul Johannesson Opponent: Professor Flávia Santoro, University of Rio de Janeiro Grading Committee: Professor Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu Professor Mihhail Matskin, KTH Professor Louise Yngström, DSV, SU
- 2. Business Processes 2 http://www.banking.newstipstricks.com/Adopted from http://www.thrombocyte.com/
- 4. Modeling Paradigms 4 Level of flexibility Levelofsupport Im perative M odels Declarative M odels rigid processes Flexible processes partly flexible & partly rigid Hybrid Models
- 6. Problem 6 Managing these concerns are difficult!
- 7. Research Questions How should the separation of cross-cutting concerns be supported in Business Process Management? Imperative Models * Declarative Models Hybrid Models 7 Research Questions Imperative Design Analysis Enactment Assessment Agility Declarative Hybrid Mining (Re)design Implement / configure Data-based analysis Runandadjust Model-based analysis
- 8. Separation of Concerns How about process models? Perspectives Modularization Level of details 8 M D|N M E
- 9. Modularization Techniques 9 a) No decomposition b) Vertical decomposition c) Horizontal decomposition d) Orthogonal decomposition Rules Scattering Problem Scattering/Tangling Problem Tangling Problem
- 10. Aspect Oriented BPM 10 Auditing Privacy Internet Transfer Money M2M Transfer Money Security Cross-cutting concerns: Core-Concerns: BusinessProcesses Branch Transfer Money ATM Transfer Money Archiving MMMM M Cross-cutting Concerns (advices) Core Concern (main process) M Rules (pointcuts) AspectOriented BusinessProcessModel Rules Obliviousness In Program P whenever condition C arises perform Action A Quantification Action (Filman et al. 2000)
- 11. Methodology Artefacts Constructs Models Methods Instantiations 11 Design Science Artefacts Design Science Research Framework 2. Suggestion 3. Development 4.Evaluation 5. Conclusion 1.Awarenessofproblem M D|N|E
- 12. Result-Artefact 12 2. Suggestion 3. Development 5. Conclusion 1.Awarenessofproblem 4.Evaluation (Re)design Implement / configure Run and adjust BPM Life- cycle Databased Analysis M odelbased Aanlysis Imperative Declarative Hybrid M odelbased Aanlysis Implement / configure Databased Analysis (Re)design Run and adjust Research Questions Imperative Declarati ve Hybrid Mining Design Analysis Enactm ent Assessme nt Agility Artefacts Constructs Models Methods Instantiations M D|N|E M D|N M D|N
- 14. AO-BPM 14 Separation of Concerns Complexity Reusability Agility …
- 15. Future directions Practical Applications and experiences Declarative & Hybrid Mining 15
- 16. Thank you 16