Context-Specific Business Process Modeling via Repository Artifacts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current business process modeling methodologies lack context-specificity, failing to incorporate business context into core components and information entities, which hampers precise communication and reuse of business process artifacts across different industries and contexts.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for context-specific modeling of collaborative business processes involves selecting and providing modeling artifacts from a repository based on specific contexts, allowing entities to modify and update these artifacts, and storing them for future reuse, ensuring context-driven relevance and precision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If core components and business information entities are defined without context-specificity to maintain generality and reusability, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but measurement precision and manufacturing precision deteriorate because they cannot precisely represent specific business contexts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the business context representation into multiple hierarchical levels: core components (generic), business information entities (context-specific), and context qualifiers (specific business context attributes). This segmentation allows the system to maintain generic core components while adding context-specific precision through separate qualifier elements that can be attached as needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a contextual dimension to the existing core component model by introducing context qualifiers that operate in a separate dimension from the core component structure itself. This allows core components to remain unchanged while context-specific precision is achieved through additional contextual attributes and qualifiers that describe the business context in which the components are used.
2Manufacturing precision
If context-specific modeling artifacts are selected and stored for different business contexts, then manufacturing precision and measurement precision are improved, but device complexity and product complexity increase due to managing multiple context-specific artifacts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal repository structure that can store and manage multiple context-specific modeling artifacts using a common framework. The context qualifier mechanism serves multiple functions: it identifies business context, selects appropriate artifacts, and enables precise modeling without requiring separate management systems for each context, thus reducing overall complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying mechanisms where context-specific modeling artifacts are created as copies or instances of generic core components, enriched with context qualifiers. This allows the system to reuse the same underlying artifact structures across different contexts while adding context-specific precision through qualifier attributes, avoiding the need to create entirely new artifacts for each context.
3Loss of information
If a repository stores multiple modeling artifacts associated with different context values, then information completeness is improved for context-specific modeling, but loss of time increases due to the need to select the appropriate artifact from multiple options
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system automatically compares the requested business context with the context qualifiers associated with stored modeling artifacts in the repository. This automatic matching and selection process provides feedback that eliminates manual searching and selection, reducing the time required to retrieve the appropriate context-specific artifact while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary organization of modeling artifacts in the repository by pre-associating context qualifiers with each artifact during storage. This preliminary action of structuring and indexing artifacts by their context attributes enables rapid retrieval when a business context is specified, eliminating the need to search through all artifacts and significantly reducing selection time.
4Measurement precision
If context qualifiers are added to core components to create business information entities, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases due to the additional layer of context management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces context qualifiers as intermediary elements that mediate between generic core components and specific business contexts. These qualifiers act as a thin layer of abstraction that adds context-specific precision without fundamentally changing the core component structure, thereby minimizing the increase in system complexity while achieving precise business information representation.
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AI summary
Among other disclosure, a computer-implemented method for context-specific modeling of a collaborative business process includes receiving an identification of a collaborative business process to involve a communication between at least two entities. The identification is submitted by an entity seeking to model the collaborative business process for a specific context associated with the entity. The method includes selecting, in a repository and using the specific context, at least one modeling artifact that has been defined for use in the identified collaborative business process. The repository includes a plurality of stored modeling artifacts for at least one collaborative business process, each of the stored modeling artifacts associated with at least one context value. The method includes providing the selected modeling artifact to the entity in response to the received identification.