On the relationship between workflow models and document types

The best practice in information system development is to model the business processes that have to be supported and the database of the information system separately. This is inefficient because they are closely related. Therefore we present a framework in which it is possible to derive one from th...

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Published in:Information systems (Oxford) 2009-03, Vol.34 (1), p.178-208
Main Authors: van Hee, Kees, Hidders, Jan, Houben, Geert-Jan, Paredaens, Jan, Thiran, Philippe
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data type
Document management system
Document management systems
Information system design methodology
Petri net
Systems design
Workflow management system
Workflow software
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Summary:The best practice in information system development is to model the business processes that have to be supported and the database of the information system separately. This is inefficient because they are closely related. Therefore we present a framework in which it is possible to derive one from the other. To this end we introduce a special class of Petri nets, called Jackson nets, to model the business processes, and a document type, called Jackson types, to model the database. We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between Jackson nets and Jackson types. We illustrate the use of the framework by an example.
ISSN:0306-4379
1873-6076
DOI:10.1016/j.is.2008.06.003