Towards Next Generation Business Process Model Repositories - A Technical Perspective on Loading and Processing of Process Models

Dietrich Hanns-Alexander


Abstract
Business process management repositories manage large collections of process models ranging in the thousands. Additionally, they provide management functions like e.g. mining, querying, merging and variants management for process models. However, most current business process management repositories are built on top of relation database management systems (RDBMS) although this leads to performance issues. These issues result from the relational algebra, the mismatch between relational tables and object oriented programming (impedance mismatch) as well as new technological developments in the last 30 years as e.g. more and cheap disk and memory space, clusters and clouds. The goal of this paper is to present current paradigms to overcome the performance problems inherent in RDBMS. Therefore, we have to fuse research about data modeling along database technologies as well as algorithm design and parallelization for the technology paradigms occurring nowadays. Based on these research streams we have shown how the performance of business process management repositories could be improved in terms of loading performance of processes (from e.g. a disk) and the computation of management techniques resulting in even faster application of such a technique. Exemplarily, applications of the compiled paradigms are presented to show their applicability.

Keywords
Business Process Model Repository; Algorithm Design; Database Design; NoSQL



Publication type
Research article in proceedings (conference)

Peer reviewed
Yes

Publication status
Published

Year
2013

Conference
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2013

Venue
Jeju Island, Korea

Pages range
Paper 252

Language
English

ISBN
978-89-952170-1-6

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