A data-centric approach to business process and workflow modeling has been emerging
over the past several years. This short paper presents a structured framework for a class of …

The increasing importance of data in business processes has led to the emergence of data-
centric business process management, which deviates from the widely used activity-centric …

Traditional approaches to business process modeling and workflow are based on activity
flows (with data often an afterthought) or documents (with processing often an afterthought) …

We formalize and study business process systems that are centered around" business
artifacts", or simply" artifacts". Artifacts are used to represent (real or conceptual) key …

In this work we survey the research on foundations of data-aware (business) processes that
has been carried out in the database theory community. We show that this community has …

We consider topic detection without any prior knowledge of category structure or possible
categories. Keywords are extracted and clustered based on different similarity measures …

This chapter describes a design methodology for business processes and workflows that
focuses first on “business artifacts”, which represent key (real or conceptual) business …

Case management refers to the coordination of work that is not routine and predictable, and
requires human judgment. Case management has applications in many domains such as …

We study the static verification problem for data-centric business processes, specified in a
variant of IBM's “business artifact” model. Artifacts are records of variables that correspond to …

The verification of control-flow soundness is well understood as an important step before
deploying business process models. However, the control flow does not capture what the …