an architecture for querying business processes, business...

An Architecture for Querying

Business Processes,

Business Process Instances, and

Business Data ModelsMaría Teresa Gomez-Lopez and Antonia M. Reina Quintero and Luisa

Parody and Jose Miguel Perez Alvarez and Manfred Reichert

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Context

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Outline

• Open problem

• Business Process Metamodels

• Architecture

• Ongoing work: real scenario

• Differences with other approaches

• Conclusions

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Introduction

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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• Data Integration as challenge

• Centred in Business Processes

Introduction

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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• Number of activities that form a process?

• Average time of executions of ‘Registration’ process ?

• Characterist of the users that do not end the ‘Registration’ process.

• The accepted papers of the conference ‘108’

• Activities contained in any process model, but not having been executed in the context of any process instance

• Average execution item of the conference with the topic 'Business Process'

• Evolution of the number of registration in conference organized in Barcelona in September

Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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Query Q1 Q2 Q3

Map

Reduce

Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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BUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA

BUSINESS PROCESSINSTANCE

ALLHow many activities has the

process whose id is 108?

Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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BUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA


ALLWhich papers of the

conference whose id is 102

have been accepted?

Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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BUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA


ALLWhich is the average

execution time of the

registration process?

Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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BUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA


ALLWhich are the emails of the

users who can execute user

tasks A and B?

Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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BUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA


ALLWhich is the average

execution time of the

conference whose topic is

“Business Process”?

Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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BUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA


ALLWhich are the activities

defined in a business model

that never have been

executed?

Metamodels approach

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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BUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA


ALLHow many institutions are

involved in the execution of

each task?

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Metamodels approach

• Open problem

• Business Alignment

• Examples

• Framework

• Architecture

• Quality and Optimization

• ConclusionsBUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA


ALL

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Proposed Architecture

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

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Proposed Architecture

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

SELECT Task.id, COUNT(institution)

FROM (Task FULL JOIN ActivityInstance FULL JOIN Person)

GROUP BY Task.id

WHERE task.idProcess=p

Assembly aircraft process

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Ongoing future

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

• 300 tables, 150 related to the process

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Ongoing future

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

• Count the number of activities that form the assemblyprocess of A4

• Aircraft with emergency aid system installed

• Average execution time of the assembly process

• Name of the activities that have not been executed ever

• Average execution time of the assembly process built forFrance

• Name of the persons being able to execute activitiesM456 and M457

• List of activities with the number of executions and thestation where they must be executed

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Ongoing future

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

BUSINESSPROCESS

BUSINESSDATA


ALL

• Combination of Data

• There is no standard definition of the process instance metamodel

• Apply to technologies: Artem Polyvyanyy et al.: Processquerying: Enabling business intelligence through query-basedprocess analytics.Decision Support Systems 100: 41-56 (2017)

• Query various Metamodel

• Dont change/manipulate the source

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Differencies with previous papers

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

Conclusions and Future Work

• Open problem


• Architecture



• Conclusions

- Conclusions

- Metamodels to make a general way to query

- Data transformation is not needed

- Drivers to be isolated from the implementation details

- Reduce the time in migration process to BPMS

- Future Work

- Extend the technology capacities

- Propose a language to query the metamodels in a general way

- Incorporate the data evolution (Hibernate Envers) in theBPIMM

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Thanks for your attention

Any Question?

María Teresa Gómez-López - [email protected] - @MayteGoLo

IDEA Research Group – Universidad de Sevilla

http://www.idea.us.es - @Idea_Group_US

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