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Title:
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HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND CHOICES AS FIRST-CLASS MODELING CONSTRUCTS |
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Author(s):
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Giorgio Bruno |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-68-7 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell |
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Year:
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2012 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Information systems, business processes, human activities, human choices, to-do lists |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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205 |
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Last Page:
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212 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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While information systems are meant to enable human participants and/or machines to perform work (processes and activities) using information, current notations for business processes, such as BPMN, are mainly technological tools and lack strong links with the ontological items, i.e., the activities and the business entities, subsumed by information systems. As the major drawbacks, the actual data flow is missing from process models and human choices are not adequately represented. In order to overcome those drawbacks, this paper proposes a notation, called Chant, which considers activities and choices as first-class constructs in process models, and provides the explicit representation of the data flow in terms of business entities. |
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