Modeling Suspension and Continuation of a Process

• Main Author: Oleg Svatos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Czech Society of Systems Integration 2012-04-01
• Series: Journal of Systems Integration
• Subjects: business process modeling; activity lifecycle; process modeling language
• Online Access: http://si-journal.org/index.php/JSI/article/download/115/88

This work focuses on difficulties an analyst encounters when modeling suspension and continuation of a process in contemporary process modeling languages. As a basis there is introduced general lifecycle of an activity which is then compared to activity lifecycles supported by individual process modeling languages. The comparison shows that the contemporary process modeling languages cover the defined general lifecycle of an activity only partially. There are picked two popular process modeling languages and there is modeled real example, which reviews how the modeling languages can get along with their lack of native support of suspension and continuation of an activity. Upon the unsatisfying results of the contemporary process modeling languages in the modeled example, there is presented a new process modeling language which, as demonstrated, is capable of capturing suspension and continuation of an activity in much simpler and precise way.