On Merging Business Process Management and Geographic Information Systems Modeling and Execution of Ecological Concerns in Processes文档.pdfVIP

On Merging Business Process Management and Geographic Information Systems: Modeling and Execution of Ecological Concerns in Processes 1 1 2 3 Xinwei Zhu , Guobin Zhu , Seppe vanden Broucke , and Jan Recker 1 International School of Software, Wuhan University Luoyu Road 37, Hongshan, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2 Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, KU Leuven Naamsestraat 69, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium 3 Information Systems School, Queensland University of Technology 2 George St, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia {xinwei.zhu,gbzhu}@whu.edu, seppe.vandenbroucke@kuleuven.be, j.recker@qut.edu.au Abstract. Business Process Management describes a holistic management approach for the systematic design, modeling, execution, validation, monitoring and improvement of organizational business processes. Traditionally, most at- tention within this community has been given to control-flow aspects, i.e., the ordering and sequencing of business activities, oftentimes in isolation with re- gards to the context in which these activities occur. In this paper, we propose an approach that allows executable process models to be integrated with Geo- graphic Information Systems. This approach enables process models to take geospatial and other geographic aspects into account in an explicit manner both during the modeling phase and the execution phase. We contribute a structured modeling methodology, based on the well-known Business Process Model and Notation standard, which is formalized by