On the relationship between workfow models and document types

Kees van Hee, Jan Hidders, Geert-Jan Houben, Jan Paredaens, Philippe Thiran

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Abstract

The best practice in information system development is to model the business processes that have to be supported and the database of the information system separately. This is inefficient because they are closely related. Therefore we present a framework in which it is possible to derive one from the other. To this end we introduce a special class of Petri nets, called Jackson nets, to model the business processes, and a document type, called Jackson types, to model the database. We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between Jackson nets and Jackson types. We illustrate the use of the framework by an example.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)178-208
Number of pages31
JournalInformation Systems
Volume34
Issue number1
Publication statusUnpublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Document management system
  • Data type
  • Petri net
  • Workflow management system
  • Information system design methodology

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