Chinese Journal of Computers   Full Text
Title	A New Business Process Management Model
Authors	LI Xiang-Ning1),2) HAO Ke-Gang2) ZHAO Ke1)
Address	1)(Key Laboratory of Electronic Equipment Structure of Ministry of Eduation, Xidian University, Xi′an 710071) 2)(School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi′an 710069)
Year	2008
Issue	No.1(104—111)
Abstract &   Background	Abstract By discussing on the essence of workflow and analyzing of the WfMC workflow reference model, this paper proposes a new view that beyond the separation of control logic from application logic, the control logic should be separated further into routing logic and resource managing logic. A resource management model describing the resource managing logic is proposed. Based on the resource management model, a new process management model BRM is proposed with its system implementation structure and interface definitions given. Comparison of BRM with WfMC reference model indicates that BRM provides more legibility, better flexibility and smaller granularity. keywords workflow; business process management; process model; resource management background Increasing applications of business process management system have been raising more requirements for agility，modularity and efficiency. For coping with these demands, many approaches are proposed including role, dynamic relations, etc. But as far as we know, no research work has studied the difference inside the process control logic. Besides, most former approaches are based on the WfMC reference model, which was introduced 10 years ago. Subtle adjustment inside the frame of the reference model either make problems complicated or cannot work at all. This paper proposes a new view that the control logic should be separated further into routing logic and resource managing logic. Then based on this view a new generic BPM reference model BRM is introduced with its formal description presented. BRM analyzes business process management from the routing-resource managing separating perspective, which favors BRM with more legibility, better flexibility and smaller granularity. Supported continually by the national research funds, the research group has been working on workflow related areas for over ten years. A workflow production named SynchroFLOW have been developed and applied in many fields including telecom, banking and insurance. This paper is first enlightened from practical problems encountered in applications.