The Temporal Perspective in Business Process Modeling : An Evaluative Survey and Research Challenges

One key perspective when dealing with Business Process Management (BPM) is time. All business experts agree upon the fact that time is a key resource for processes within organisations. Indeed, time managing is an effective cost reduction strategy and thus ensures profit maximization for organisatio...

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Published in:Service oriented computing and applications 2015-01, Vol.9 (1)
Main Authors: Cheikhrouhou, Saoussen, Kallel, Slim, Guermouche, Nawal, Jmaiel, Mohamed
Format: Article
Language:English
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Computer Science
Software Engineering
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Summary:One key perspective when dealing with Business Process Management (BPM) is time. All business experts agree upon the fact that time is a key resource for processes within organisations. Indeed, time managing is an effective cost reduction strategy and thus ensures profit maximization for organisations. As a result, business managers, researchers, and academicians in management are striving to have full-support of temporal aspects in current business process management suites. Consequently, modeling and managing temporal requirements in the business process field is becoming a topic of intensive research. This paper presents a survey of the existing approaches to specifying and verifying the temporal perspective in business processes. Furthermore, this paper provides a critical and comparative analysis of the studied approaches and stands out major challenges to be addressed to substantially enhance the time management in the business process management field.
ISSN:1863-2386
1863-2394